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	Alaska Division of Community Advocacy
		Diomede is located on the west coast of Little Diomede Island in the Bering Straits, 135 miles northwest of Nome.
		Diomede is a traditional Ingalikmiut Eskimo village with a subsistence lifestyle.
		Little Diomede villagers depend almost entirely upon a subsistence economy for their livelihood.
	www.dced.state.ak.us /dca/commdb/CF_BLOCK.cfm?Comm_Boro_Name=Diomede&Data_Type=Overview (684 words)

	Diomede - Nome Census Area, Alaska - American Local History Network
		Little Diomede has a maritime climate when the strait is ice free which occurs from June through November.
		Diomede does not have an airstrip but there is a helicopter landing pad.
		During the post war cold war, Little Diomede residents who strayed into Soviet waters were taken captive and held as prisoners in Siberia for a whole summer.
	www.rootsweb.com /~aknome/diomede.html (532 words)

	University Of Alaska, Stories
		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.
		Little Diomede Island is located at the narrowest place in the Bering Strait, between the Chukchi Peninsula to the west and the Seward Peninsula to the east, where the weather can be very severe.
		The people of Wales and Port Clarence were culturally very similar to the Little Diomede people, but because the Diomede Islanders had an abundance of stone to work with and used it extensively, their homes had a unique design and appearance.
	www.alaska.edu /opa/eInfo/index.xml?StoryID=108 (979 words)

	Diomede Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Diomede Islands, 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 Siberia.
		At the closest land approach between the United States (which controls Little Diomede) and Russia (which controls Big Diomede, part of the Chukotka region), they are 3 km (2 miles) apart.
		Big Diomede Island is Russia's easternmost point, while Alaska's Aleutian Islands are the furthest-west point of the U.S. Some miles south-east of Little Diomede there is a small uninhabited island called Fairway Rock Island.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Little_Diomede (325 words)

	PBS - Harriman: Little Diomede
		Little Diomede is flat-topped, steep-sided and very isolated by its location, by rough seas, and by the persistent fog that shrouds the island during the warmer months.
		All residents were removed to the mainland, and any Little Diomede inhabitants who strayed across the waters too close to Big Diomede where taken captive by the Russians.
		Little Diomede Eskimos live a subsistence lifestyle, harvesting fish and crab, hunting beluga whales, walrus, seals and polar bears.
	www.pbs.org /harriman/current/profiles/diomede.html (594 words)

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		Little Diomede Island is a small island with just one village of 140 resients out in the Bering Strait between Russia and Alaska.
		An athletic event had not been held on Little Diomede for about 30 years, but the village was excited to stage this one.
		The local Diomede dancers had just returned from the Camai festival in Bethel and were ready to party with all of the guests.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=10943885&postID=111410360982081941 (609 words)

	Alaska Journal of Commerce: Little Diomede has oldest, costliest mail drop 03/18/02
		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.
		Diomeders have long been known for their ivory carvings and whale hunting.
		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)

	Diomede School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Diomede, Alaska is located on the western side of Little Diomede Island in the Bering Strait.
		Diomede boasts some extremely impressive ivory carvers who sell their works in Fairbanks and Anchorage.
		Diomede also has a post office and a health clinic to take care of basic medical needs.
	www.bssd.org /schools/sites/DIO/diomede.htm (424 words)

	TRAVELING BETWEEN CONTINENTS: THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF INTERETHNIC CONTACTS ACROSS BERING STRAIT. AEER 13 (2), 1995
		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)

	Diomede Islands -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Big Diomede Island is Russia's easternmost point, while Alaska's (An archipelago in the North Pacific extending southwestern from Alaska) Aleutian Islands extend U.S. territory further west.
		The islands were named by Danish explorer (Danish explorer who explored the northern Pacific Ocean for the Russians and discovered the Bering Strait (1681-1741)) Vitus Bering in 1728.
		During the (A state of political conflict using means short of armed warfare) Cold War, (additional info and facts about Lynne Cox) Lynne Cox swam from one island to the other.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/di/diomede_islands.htm (175 words)

	U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Little Diomede is situated there because of the proximity to subsistence resources.
		Because Diomede does not have a docking facility and freight barges have had to wait for calm weather to offload, barge companies are very reluctant to barge freight into Diomede.
		Little Diomede could benefit tremendously from a docking facility, but under earlier analysis by the Corps, they did not qualify under the cost benefit analysis.
	appropriations.senate.gov /hearmarkups/record.cfm?id=223528 (1972 words)

	NSF-funded researchers track Alaska seal migration for the first time
		"Seal tracking is an important and somewhat unexpected offshoot of a larger NSF project to establish an onshore environmental observatory on Little Diomede Island in the Bering Strait and to encourage the participation of Alaska natives in the research effort," according to Sheffield, who oversees marine mammal sampling and data gathering for the observatory.
		The strategic location of the observatory on Little Diomede is expected to permit rapid, flexible collection of chemical, biological and physical data on the transport of nutrient- and organic-rich waters of north Pacific origin into the Arctic Ocean through the narrow Bering Strait.
		"Little Diomede Island is a challenging, but rewarding place to work," said Lee Cooper of the University of Tennessee, the project lead scientist.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2001-10/nsf-nrt102901.php (594 words)

	Little Diomede Island - Saint Jude (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Little Diomede is situated about 50 miles below the Arctic Circle in the middle of the Bering Strait half way between Siberia and Alaska.
		"By this time a fair number of Little Diomeders were already Catholic, having been brought into the Church by Lafortune during their annual summers (stays) in Nome." It was Fr.
		The Little Sisters of Jesus were also residents at Little Diomede beginning in 1954 up until 1996.
	www.cbna.info /churches/little.html (287 words)

	Diomede informatiom
		Diomede is located on the west coast of Little Diomede Island in the Bering Strait, 135 miles northwest of Nome.
		The people of Diomede hunt whales during the spring from open leads in the sea ice.
		The practice of whaling was not successful or not pursued for several decades in the middle to late 20th century until 1999 when the hunt was again successful.
	www.uark.edu /misc/jcdixon/Historic_Whaling/Villages/Diomede.htm (290 words)

	On Little Diomede, mail delivery is still an adventure
		Mac said he came across this story on mail delivery to Diomede as part of his regular transportation beat with the Alaska Journal of Commerce, and a previous story he'd written about Evergreen Helicopters.
		Little Diomede Island, home to 147 mostly Ingalikmiut Eskimo inhabitants, is less than 3 square miles.
		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)

	ipedia.com: Diomede Islands Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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)

	StandardNET/Standard-Examiner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It was the first home athletic event in a generation for Diomede, the only village on Little Diomede Island, which is walking distance from the International Dateline just east of Russia's Chukotsk Peninsula.
		Diomede has no airstrip until the sea ice freezes into a runway.
		Diomede hasn't been the host team for an athletic event since at least the 1970s.
	www.standard.net /xplore.php/47815?printable=story (216 words)

	LITTLE DIOMEDE - IOTA NA-150
		We have contacted some people on Little Diomede that should be able to bring us over by boat, but at the present moment, the seas are too rough (about a 30 knot breeze) for the small boats that they have to possibly offer.
		Lastly, the QTH for operation from Little Diomede is at the base of the island with a 1700 foot mountain in back of us.
		NA-150 Little Diomede Island is located in Alaska within the Bering Straits at 66 degrees north, 169 degrees west.
	home.netcom.com /~barryb/na150.html (4224 words)

	Canku Ota - Decermber 1, 2001 - Native Wisdom Benefits Biologists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In a feat that married Inupiat seal-hunting know-how with Space Age gadgetry, villagers from Little Diomede Island worked with biologists last spring to capture and then track a ringed seal more than 400 miles through the frozen Chukchi Sea during the seal's annual northward migration.
		Between early May and mid-June, the seal traveled northeast from Diomede, sometimes diving as deep as 164 feet in search of food, according to a paper about research in the Bering Strait by seven scientists from the University of Tennessee, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, and the University of Maryland.
		"Little Diomede is a challenging, but rewarding place to work," said oceanographer Lee Cooper, the observatory's lead scientist, in a NSF release.
	www.turtletrack.org /Issues01/Co12012001/CO_12012001_Biologists.htm (907 words)

	University Of Alaska, Stories
		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.
		Ceremonies were often centered here; for example, when a whale was killed, the captain of the boat crew would borrow a kugeri (if he did not own one) and live in it with his family for about six weeks.
	www.alaska.edu /opa/eInfo/index.xml?StoryID=20 (913 words)

	Northern Journeys Sea Migrations - Image of the Whale
		Little Diomede is a small island in the Bering Strait about 25 miles off the coast of the Seward Peninsula in western Alaska.
		Their route northward intersects with Little Diomede Island, and they follow the Alaskan and Canadian coastline into the eastern Beaufort Sea.
		Here they feed on plankton and tiny crustaceans such as krill, which they filter from the water using baleen in their mouths.
	www.uaf.edu /museum/journeys/sea/IW-location.html (131 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Solutions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		What's more, in the middle of the strait, Russia's Big Diomede Island is so close to America's Little Diomede Island that there's barely enough room between them for the international date line.
		This means that the number of numbers that divide L, which is the same as the number of students stopping at locker L, is even unless S1 = S2 for some pair of numbers S1 and S2, that is, unless L is a perfect square.
		You can draw a diagram with 64 little boxes in the shape of a square or circle, labeled from 1 to 64, and spend a quiet hour going round and round the diagram counting and checking them off.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/national/horizon/june98/solution.htm (1302 words)

	The Great Global Experiment
		Average temperature rose a little more than 1 degree Fahrenheit during the past century—but on Alaska's north slope and in northwestern Canada, during the same period, temperatures have already risen 4 to 7 degrees.
		It is no particular comfort that the data confirm the Little Diomede villagers' anecodotal testimony: subsistence lifestyles throughout the far north are threatened by warmer winters.
		Sea levels will continue to rise for centuries, even if new emissions of CO were limited tomorrow, because to date, only a fraction of the ocean—the warmest water that lies on the surface—has been warmed by higher temperatures.
	www.harvardmagazine.com /on-line/1102195.html (4354 words)

	Alaska Division of Community Advocacy
		Diomede is located in the Cape Nome Recording District.
		A federally-recognized tribe is located in the community -- the Native Village of Diomede (a.k.a.
		Diomede is classified as an isolated village, it is found in EMS Region 5A in the Norton Sound Region.
	www.dced.state.ak.us /dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_Name=Diomede (802 words)

	Diomede Islands - TheBestLinks.com - Big Diomede, Alaska, Aleutian Islands, Bridge, ...
		Diomede Islands - TheBestLinks.com - Big Diomede, Alaska, Aleutian Islands, Bridge,...
		Big Diomede, 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 /Big_Diomede.html (251 words)

	www.ilovealaska.com/ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Location: Diomede is located on the west coast of Little Diomede Island in the Bering Straits, 135 miles northwest of Nome.
		History: Early Eskimos on the islands were fearless men of the ice and sea, with an advanced culture practicing elaborate whale hunting ceremonies.
		Culture: Diomede is a traditional Ingalikmiut Eskimo village with a subsistence lifestyle.
	www.ilovealaska.com /alaska/cities.cfm?cityid=81 (559 words)

	TEA: Tea_gershonfrontpage
		Little Diomede Island, about 1.5 miles wide, lies at approximately 65 N. Latitude, and 169 W longitude, just off the coast of Siberia and about 135 miles northwest of Nome, Alaska.
		I also hope to work together with the teachers and students on Little Diomede to develop a relationship between our two schools, districts, and communities.
		This is an incredible and unique opportunity for children from two very different worlds to interact, share experiences and learn about the very different climates, regions, habitats, and lifestyles parcticular to each set of experiences.
	tea.armadaproject.org /tea_gershonfrontpage.html (929 words)

	06/27/02: Moby 1 - Ahab 0 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Melton Ozenna, 41, was hunting with his older brother and two of his brother's children about 20 miles southwest of their home on Little Diomede Island.
		Seven whaling boats were involved in the subsistence hunt early yesterday near the island in the Bering Strait, midway between the coasts of the United States and Russia.
		They started CPR and continued toward Little Diomede, arriving about 10 minutes later.
	www.mrcranky.com /movies/juwannamann/207.html (562 words)

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