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The straight distance between Russia and Alaska is 82.5 kilometers (51.3 mi). If building bridges and using the Diomede Islands, the straight distance over water for the three parts would be 36.0 km (22.4 mi), 3.8 km (2.4 mi) and 36.8 km (22.9 mi), in total 76.6 km (47.6 mi). [22] [better source needed]
Big Diomede Island is the easternmost point of Russia. The Diomede Islands are often mentioned as likely intermediate stops for the hypothetical bridge or tunnel (Bering Strait crossing) spanning the Bering Strait. [5] During winter, an ice bridge usually spans the distance between these two islands.
Satellite image of Bering Strait. Cape Dezhnev, Russia, is on the left, the two Diomede Islands are in the middle, and Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, is on the right. The Bering Strait is about 82 kilometers (51 mi) wide at its narrowest point, between Cape Dezhnev, Chukchi Peninsula, Russia, the easternmost point (169° 39' W) of the Asian continent and Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, United ...
Attu, being the nearest of the Aleutian Islands to Kamchatka, was the first of the islands exploited by Russian traders. Russian explorer Aleksei Chirikov called the island Saint Theodore in 1742. [7] Russians stayed on the island several years at a stretch to hunt sea otters. The Russians often clashed with the local Unangan people. After the ...
The closest law enforcement are dispatched from the Alaska State Troopers barracks on the mainland in Nome. Frozen ground and lack of soil on the rocky island prevents digging graves, so rocks are piled on top of the burial sites instead. [33] On November 7, 2009, it was announced that one inhabitant was infected with H1N1 swine flu. [34]
Russia is keen to demonstrate its continued ability to project force in the Arctic and the far east despite the strains on its armed forces from the 18-month war in Ukraine.
Alaska's territorial waters touch Russia's territorial waters in the Bering Strait, as the Russian Big Diomede Island and Alaskan Little Diomede Island are only 3 miles (4.8 km) apart. Alaska has a longer coastline than all the other U.S. states combined. [42] Alaska's size compared with the 48 contiguous states (Albers equal-area conic projection)
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