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The school year 1953–1954 on Little Diomede Island was adapted to better serve the local needs. Teaching took place throughout the holidays and also on some weekends in order to complete the 180 days of schooling before the walrus migration started in Spring. The annual walrus hunt was a major source of supplies and income and required the ...
The Diomede Islands are named after Saint Diomedes.The Inupiaq name IĊaliq means "the other one" or "the one over there". [4] The two islands are respectively nicknamed "Yesterday Island" (Little Diomede Island) and "Tomorrow Island" (Big Diomede Island) because the International Date Line runs between them, making the date on Little Diomede Island always one day earlier than the date on Big ...
Little Diomede had an Inupiat population of 170, [11] which had declined to 115 at the 2010 census, entirely in the village site on the west side of the island, though the island as a whole comprises the city of Diomede. This village has a school, a post office and a store.
The little Alaskan city's 83 residents can see Russia — including military base watchtowers — from their houses. Meet Little Diomede Island in Alaska, the 'eyes and ears' of the United States ...
There are few cash economy jobs, and the school is often the largest employer in each village. Russia is visible from four district schools with the naked eye, most notably from Diomede School located on the island of Little Diomede , where it is only 2.4 km (1.5 mi) from the International Date Line .
A troopers's flight to Little Diomede Island gives an opportunity to speak to school children and reinforce safety around polar bears. Troopers in the Matanuska-Susitna (Mat-Su) Valley respond to suicide calls, and a trooper describes his coping technique.
That all changed when the "Iron Curtain" Fell on Diomede and the Russian Island. Little is known why the Iron Curtain fell in Diomede but it had something to do with the paranoia of both the United States and the Soviet Union at the time. In essence the Global effects of the "Cold War" hit the residents of both islands the hardest.
The granite mass that is now Fairway Rock, like the larger nearby Diomede Islands, is the remnant of an earlier era of glaciation. [1]Fairway Rock is situated 12 mi (19 km) SSE of Little Diomede Island and 20 mi (32 km) W of Cape Prince of Wales, at