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	Diomede Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Diomede Islands (Russian: Острова Диомида Ostrova Diomida), consisting of the western island Big Diomede or Imaqliq, also known as Ratmanov Island, and the eastern island Little Diomede or Inaliq, are two rocky islands located in the middle of the Bering Strait between Alaska and Russia.
		Big Diomede Island is Russia's easternmost point, while Alaska's Aleutian Islands are the furthest-west point of the U.S. 50 States.
		The Diomede Islands are often mentioned as likely intermediate stops for a bridge or tunnel spanning the Bering Strait.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Diomede_Islands (342 words)

	Diomede Islands: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/di/diomede_islands.htm (1106 words)

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		DIOMEDE ISLANDS [Diomede Islands], pair of rocky islands in Bering Strait between Alaska and Siberia.
		The larger island, Big Diomede, is Russian, while the smaller is part of Alaska.
		The first European explorer to the islands was the Danish Vitus Bering in 1728.
	www.encyclopedia.com /printable.aspx?id=1E1:DiomedeI (69 words)

	Diomede Islands - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Diomede Islands
		Two islands in the Bering Strait, off the tip of the Seward peninsula, Alaska, that lie about midway between the continents of America and Asia.
		Little Diomede (area: 6.2 sq km/2.4 sq mi) belongs to the USA and is only 3.9 km/2.4 mi from Big Diomede (area: 29.3 sq km/11.3 sq mi) or Ratmanov, which is owned by Russia.
		A small population of Inuit from the Ingalikmiut group inhabit the islands and maintain a subsistence lifestyle based on seal, walrus, and fish.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Diomede+Islands (172 words)

	Diomede - Nome Census Area, Alaska - American Local History Network
		Diomede does not have an airstrip but there is a helicopter landing pad.
		Diomede is only 2.5 miles from the Russian controlled Big Diomede Island.
		Diomede is a second class city incorporated in 1970.
	www.rootsweb.com /~aknome/diomede.html (532 words)

	Alaska Journal of Commerce: Little Diomede has oldest, costliest mail drop 03/18/02
		She is one of the island's 147 mostly Ingalikmiut Eskimo inhabitants.
		Little Diomede Island is less than 3 square miles in size, and the island's rocky, steep slopes have prohibited the construction of a runway.
		Diomede is a dry village where the sale and importation of alcohol is illegal.
	www.alaskajournal.com /stories/031802/loc_diomede_mail.shtml (1042 words)

	Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Some smaller bodies of water are part of the open oceans; the Barents Sea, White Sea, Kara Sea, Laptev Sea and East Siberian Sea are part of the Arctic, whereas the Bering Sea, Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan belong to the Pacific Ocean.
		The most practical way to describe Russia is as a main part (a large contiguous portion with its off-shore islands) and an exclave (at the southeast corner of the Baltic Sea).
		These points are: in the West, the same spit; in the East, the Big Diomede Island (Ostrov Ratmanova).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Russia (5845 words)

	NPO Theme Page: Frequently Asked Questions
		Big Diomede Island, some 20 miles east of Cape Dezhnev in Bering Strait is the easternmost land owned by Russia.
		A continental shelf is a zone just offshore of an island or continent, stretching from the low-tide line to where the ocean floor begins to slope steeply down toward the basin.
		Volcanic islands drift away from a hot spot sink as their weight depresses the plate they rest on.
	www.pmel.noaa.gov /np/pages/faq.html (1907 words)

	ipedia.com: Diomede Islands Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Diomede Islands are two rocky islands located in the middle of the Bering Strait between Alaska and Siberia.
		The Diomede Islands (Big Diomede and Little Diomede) are two rocky islands located in the middle of the Bering Strait between Alaska and Siberia.
		Big Diomede Island is Russia's easternmost point, while Alaska's Aleutian Islands extend the United States' land further west.
	www.ipedia.com /diomede_islands.html (228 words)

	On Little Diomede, mail delivery is still an adventure
		Little Diomede Island, home to 147 mostly Ingalikmiut Eskimo inhabitants, is less than 3 square miles.
		The island's rocky, steep slopes prohibit construction of a runway.
		Big Diomede Island, two miles away in Russia, and home to a military base, was heavily armed with anti-aircraft weapons, Penttila said.
	www.ap.org /alaska/Diomede.htm (992 words)

	Diomede Islands - TheBestLinks.com - Ignaluk, Alaska, Aleutian Islands, Bridge, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Diomede Islands - TheBestLinks.com - Ignaluk, Alaska, Aleutian Islands, Bridge,...
		Ignaluk, Diomede Islands, Alaska, Aleutian Islands, Bridge, Russia, Siberia...
		The Diomede Islands (Big Diomede, also known as Ratmanov Island, and Little Diomede) are two rocky islands located in the middle of the Bering Strait between Alaska and Siberia.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Ignaluk.html (240 words)

	Ask A GeoGeek
		The closest sizable landmass is the island of Madagascar.
		The island of Sumatra is part of the the country Indonesia and the Malay peninsula is shared by the countries of Thailand and Malaysia.
		Diomede Islands are two islands in the Bering Strait (less than 100 miles from the Arctic Circle) between Alaska and Siberia.
	www-geography.berkeley.edu /BUGs/GeoGeeks/GeoGeekQA.html (4932 words)

	TRAVELING BETWEEN CONTINENTS: THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF INTERETHNIC CONTACTS ACROSS BERING STRAIT. AEER 13 (2), 1995 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Little Diomede Island, August 1994: The village residents are accumulating cash and grocery supplies and local dancers are practicing almost every night.
		Little Diomede Island, January through July 1944: According to records kept by the local schoolteachers one hundred and seventy eight people from Big Diomede and the Siberian mainland had been visiting the island within these six months.
		Chukchi, Naukanski, the Inupiaq dialects of the two Diomede Islands, Wales and King Island show a certain mutual interaction of their vocabularies, as well as certain influence of English and Russian, in all the cases depending on the timelength and intensity of contacts.
	condor.depaul.edu /~rrotenbe/aeer/aeer13_2/Schweitzer.html (3630 words)

	Google Sightseeing » Post Archive » The Diomede Islands
		These are the Diomede Islands, two islands only 3km apart but one is in Russia, the other in the USA.
		These islands are right in the middle of the Bering Straights and the international dateline runs right in between them.
		The Diomede Islands are often mentioned as likely intermediate stops for some kind of bridge or tunnel spanning the Bering Straits, which would be one big and expensive bridge!
	googlesightseeing.com /2006/05/01/the-diomede-islands (579 words)

	University Of Alaska, Stories
		But on the Island of Little Diomede in the Bering Straits, a kugeri stands which has for generations protected its Inhabitants from some of the severest weather on earth.
		Although the old houses were well built and most of the water from rain and snowmelt is directed away from them, the maritime climate of the Diomede Islands makes some organic decomposition inevitable.
		By the time the Little Diomede kugeri was refurbished in 1945, the old wallboards and ceiling were replaced with wooden planks from Seattle and the ceiling was lowered.
	www.alaska.edu /opa/eInfo/index.xml?StoryID=20 (913 words)

	Vitus Bering - Arctic Explorers - All Things Arctic
		Big Diomede Island (Russia) and Little Diomede Island (United States) lie less than 3 miles apart in the middle of the strait.
		The three miles separating Big Diomede Island (Asia) and Little Diomede Island (North America) is the shortest distance between the two continents.
		Frozen over from October until June, the Bering Strait is an arm of the North Pacific Ocean, bounded on the east by Alaska, on the south by the Aleutian Islands, and on the west by Siberia (Russian Asia) and the Kamchatka Peninsula.
	www.allthingsarctic.com /exploration/bering.aspx (458 words)

	Seabird Tissue Archival and Monitoring Project
		Aliquots of common murre eggs from Little Diomede, St. George, and Bogoslof islands in the Bering Sea and East Amatuli and St. Lazaria islands in the Gulf of Alaska were analyzed for POPs.
		Concentrations of 4,4’-DDE were significantly higher in common murre eggs from St. Lazaria and East Amatuli islands in the Gulf of Alaska (2440 ± 800 and 1570 ± 740 ng/g lipid weight, respectively) than eggs from the Bering Sea colonies (Little Diomede, St. George, and Bogoslof islands) and in concentrations reported by Braune et al.
		The common murre eggs from St. Lazaria Island had concentrations of SPCBs significantly higher (1970 ± 800 ng/g lipid weight) than eggs from any of the other Alaskan colonies or Prince Leopold Island thick-billed murres, but HCB was significantly lower in the St. Lazaria eggs (i.e., 316 ± 72 ng/g lipid weight).
	www.absc.usgs.gov /research/ammtap/stamp.htm (2035 words)

	Diomede Islands - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Diomede Islands - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		It connects the Bering Sea (a northern arm of the Pacific Ocean) with the Arctic...
		Diomedes, in Greek mythology, king of Argos, and the son of Tydeus, one of the warriors known as the Seven Against Thebes.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Diomede_Islands.html (118 words)

	SAA > Learning & Travel > Travel/Study > Trip Detail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		We visit Arakamchechen Island to explore the remains of a 400-year-old Inuit village, then walk across the tundra to a beach known for its large numbers of basking walrus.
		After St. Paul Island was charted in 1786, news of its immense fur seal population spread among traders.
		The Aleutian Islands bridge the Bering Sea from North America to Russia and are the longest network of active volcanoes in North America.
	www.stanfordalumni.org /learningtravel/travelstudy/destinations/tsReaderLongest.html?content_instance_id=104766 (1820 words)

	Free Congress Foundation Online ---
		The large Russian Island would then be connected to Asia by another 22-mile tunnel extending to the area near Nauken, Russia.
		The tunnels would be connected under the islands along with a passing track in that area.
		The building of two tunnels, connected at the two islands, with a total length of some 54 miles, plus shore entrances, is not an unreasonable or unaffordable scientific, engineering endeavor for our two countries, especially in light of the enormous benefits.
	www.trolleycar.org /observations/ronaldkotas/kotas010905.htm (2805 words)

	Anchorage Daily News \| Diomede mail run is often a white-knuckle ride (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The postal contract is one of the oldest in the nation, the most expensive in Alaska, and the only one that uses helicopters for delivering mail.
		Winds blow consistently from the north, averaging 17 mph, with gusts to 60 or 80 mph.
		Ozenna said she and other villagers had hoped that tighter security imposed after Sept. 11 would have quelled some of the illegal shipments, but that hasn't happened.
	arctic.bio.utk.edu /AEO/Anchorage_News_EPenttila.htm (850 words)

	The Alaskan Shepherd
		As I mentioned above, the both Diomede islands are in a distance of two miles but there is 26 hours difference in time.
		The lower part of Soviet Big Diomede Island is visible at the top of the photo.
		In the beginning of June, on Little Diomede, I was listening intently to a miraculous and amazing music of birds' choir.
	www.cbna.info /shepherd/jan01/jan01.html (2338 words)

	Welcome to Alaska's Digital Archive
		In 1747 fur traders reach the Near Islands in the Aleutians, and by 1759 are trading with Natives on Umnak and Unalaska islands in the Eastern Aleutians.
		Russians took Unangan/Aleuts to the islands to hunt the Northern Fur Seals that breed there, and later moved families to the islands to live permanently.
		1970 The village on the steep cliffs of King Island southeast of the Bering Strait is abandoned.
	vilda.alaska.edu /site-templates/timeline.html (7785 words)

	Diomede Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dennis was hoping the weather would allow a flight to the Diomede Islands.
		Little Diomede is a rocky island belonging to Alaska.
		It seemed to be closer to the Russian island at first, but a tiny trail led toward an Eskimo village clinging to the cliffs on the American side.
	www.susancanthony.com /AboutAlaska/diomede.html (458 words)

	Dover Solo - ISHOF Induction Ceremony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Perhaps the most incredible of cold water swims, her 2 hours, 16 minutes from Little Diomede (USA) to Big Diomede (USSR) astonished the physiologists who were monitoring her swim.
		In Washington, Presidents Reagan and Gorbachov toasted Lynne's swim saying that she "proved by her courage how closely to each other our peoples live".Ā Before this time, at the start of the Cold War, the families of the Diomede Islands had been split and had not been permitted to see one another since 1948.
		In 1994 at the age of 37 years, she swam the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea joining the 15 miles of 80-degree water between Egypt, Israel and Jordan.Ā She has swum Lake Titicaca in the Andes Mountains, the world's highest navigable lake.
	www.doversolo.com /lynnecoxhf.htm (247 words)

	Zegrahm Expeditions - Realm of the Russian Bear (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Only three miles separate Big Diomede and Little Diomede Islands, and their inhabitants share cultural and familial ties.
		Yet, as the larger island lies in Russian waters and the smaller is part of the U.S., the countries' border keeps the islands' inhabitants apart, a poignant reminder that the intangible barriers erected by political differences can prove more insurmountable than easily crossed distance.
		If the Diomedes are a sobering reminder of political barriers, then the mere act of traveling to Kamchatka is a hopeful reminder of how quickly those barriers can fall.
	www.zeco.com /library/russian-bears-cruise-10-2004.asp (612 words)

	Diomede Islands, Alaska AK, profile (Nome census area) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
		Diomede Islands, AK Diomede Islands is in Nome census area.
		Sections below provide additional information and links about Diomede Islands travel and tourism, nearby airports, cemeteries, the Nome census area economy, education, environment, genealogy, government, historic sites, libraries, maps, museums, newspapers and other media, nonprofit groups, real estate, recreation, religion, transportation, and weather.
		Commercial FM radio stations in or near Diomede Islands
	www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=27938 (372 words)

	NFB - Arctic Mission - The Expedition
		Last Friday, we dropped anchor between the Diomede Islands, the westernmost point of our voyage.
		At one point, the prow of the ship was in Russia and the stern in the United States.
		While we were lying at anchor between the two islands, I saw seals and birds cross the border, and nobody minded.
	www.nfb.ca /aventures/sedna/arcticmission/ma_expedition/chef.php?display=097 (536 words)

	Dover Solo - Lynne Cox
		Before this time, at the start of the Cold War, the families of the Diomede Islands had been split and had not been permitted to see one another since 1948.
		She does not wear a wet suit in frigid water and does not use a cage in shark infested waters.
		In 1994 at the age of 37 years, she swam the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea joining the 15 miles of 80-degree water between Egypt, Israel and Jordan.
	www.doversolo.com /lynnecox.htm (746 words)

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