The Diomede Islands, located in the Bering Strait, are a unique geographic and political anomaly, lying just a few kilometers apart but divided by the international border between Russia and the ...

May 22 marks International Chardonnay Day, and there’s no better excuse to raise a glass to one of the most iconic white ...

This distance is found between two islands in the Bering Strait known as the Diomede Islands, located in the Arctic Ocean. The islands - Little Diomede, which belongs to the United States ...

On the Russian side is Big Diomede, which is just over 10 square kilometers (4 square miles). Historically, it was home to the Iñupiat – as is Little Diomede – but the island now has no ...

In that 53 miles, are two islands, Big Diomede (Russia) and Little Diomede (U.S.). Only 2.5 miles of water separate those little guys, and that’s very close without sharing a border. Sadly ...

Experience the thrill of celebrating New Year twice by visiting Little Diomede and Big Diomede islands in the Bering Strait. Separated by the International Date Line, these islands offer a rare ...

Discover the Diomede Islands, two small landmasses separating Russia and the U.S. in the Bering Strait. Learn 7 fascinating facts about their geography, time zone divide, Cold War history ...

was able to re-route a marine mammal carcass survey to alert people and provide educational as well as emergency response information on Little Diomede Island, which is in the middle of the Bering ...

At age 22, he landed on Little Diomede, a tiny granite island outcropping in the strait sandwiched between Alaska and Siberia. He walked the sea ice with his students to the international dateline ...

The International Date Line (IDL) also separates the two islands. So, Big Diomedes is 21 hours ahead of Little Diomede, as per NASA ...

In 1987, Lynne Cox became a symbol of thawing Cold War tensions when she swam from the island of Little Diomede in Alaska across a portion of the Bering Strait to the island of Big Diomede in Russia.

But when it comes to islands, there are only 2.5 miles between Russia's Big Diomede and the U.S.'s Little Diomede. This water freezes over in the winter, so “you could technically walk from the ...