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Diomede Islands

The Big Diomede and Little Diomede, sometimes called Tomorrow Island and Yesterday Isle respectively, are the 2 islands at the border of Russia and Alaska, U.s.

The islands are about 2.4 miles apart located in the middle of the Bering Strait, separated by the International Date Line. They are called Tomorrow Island and Yesterday Isle because Big Diomede is 21 hours ahead of the small guy.

When the sale of Alaska finalized during 1867, there are families with family members on both islands. They were not allowed to cross over to see each other during the cold war.

       
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Mar 20, 2009
John Concilus said...
The Diomede Islands are super cool, but you have some of your facts wrong.

No Inupiaq Eskimos live on Big Diomede, as they were relocated to Uelen by the Soviets. The village

Never heard the Tomorrow Island thing, although I suppose they could be referred to that way.....the International Datelines does run between the two. Americans call these the Diomedes, and the Russians call Big Diomede Ratmonov. The locals on Little Diomede call it Inaliq.

The third picture in your series is not Diomede, but the village of Wales..on the mainland facing the islands.

The fourth picture does not look like Diomede to me, but I can't prove it ;-)

If you'd like a free trip to Little Diomede, here is a panorma a teacher and a student in the Bering Strait School District did:

http://www.bssd.org/standing_place_hires_out.swf

And here is a live, steerable webcam....look from today into tomorrow:

http://siteproxy.bssd.org/4/control.html

Regards,

John

Mar 21, 2009
Stephanie Lim said...
now that is a super cool place to visit.
Mar 30, 2009
This is really cool! Is it easy to put photos on like that?
Apr 01, 2009
Stephanie Lim said...
@Ben Johnson, you just attach photos to your e-mail like a regular file attachment and Posterous will automatically format and post them for you.  If you attach more than one, it will automatically turn it into a gallery.

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