The result was that sea levels were up to 91 meters (300 feet) lower, and as a consequence, the Diomede Islands wouldn’t have been islands at all – they would’ve been part of a land bridge.

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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.