Big Diomede (Russia) and Little Diomede (USA)—are just 3.8 km apart but nearly a day apart in time, divided by the International Date Line. In winter, one can theoretically walk across the frozen sea ...

Along with 67 other Inupiat Inuit, he keeps watch over the back door to America from Little Diomede, a desolate Alaskan island that rises out of the mists in the middle of the Bering Strait.