The Diomede Islands, located in the Bering Strait between Russia and the United States, are home to one of the most fascinating and unique time zone anomalies in the world. These two islands, Diomede ...

LITTLE DIOMEDE -- When you live on a steep pile of rocks in the middle of the Bering Strait, traveling to the next town over is a major ordeal. Villagers on the Alaska island of Little Diomede ...

Life in Diomede, Alaska, is unlike anywhere else in the United States. Just 2.4 miles from Russia's Big Diomede Island, the city of 83 people can see the border from the shore.

Barely 2.4 miles apart, there is a 21-hour time difference between Big Diomede Island and Little Diomede Island (the US), though you can easily walk between the two on an icy cold day.

Context. Although Russia's Big Diomede Island and Alaska's Little Diomede Island are in fact about 2.5 miles apart and you can see one from the other, the viral photograph purporting to document ...

Russia’s Big Diomede Island is about 25 miles from Alaska, and thus the continental U.S. As Earth Observatory reader Jim Andersen commented on a NASA blog : “When you look at the Big Diomede ...

The Diomede islands were once divided by an "ice curtain" in the Bering Strait. By Liam Doyle, ... Miracle in Spain as UK tourist rescued floating off Ibiza 4 days after going missing.