Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Diomede Islands are located in the middle of the Bering Strait between mainland Alaska and Siberia. If marginal seas are considered, then they are the northernmost islands within the entire Pacific Ocean. To the north is the Chukchi Sea and to the south is the Bering Sea. Fairway Rock, 9.3 kilometres (5.8 mi) to the southeast, is
The Islands of Diomedes (Διομήδειοι) [1] were named after Diomedes, King of Argos. Diomedia (Διομήδεια), one of these islands, was according to the Greek myths where Diomedes was buried. [2] [3] The islands are associated with modern-day Palagruža archipelago. Pliny the Elder writes that on Diomedia there was a monument of ...
Big Diomede Island or Tomorrow Island (Russian: Остров Ратманова, romanized: ostrov Ratmanova; Ratmanov Island, Chukot: Имэлин; Inupiaq: Imaqłiq) is the western island of the two Diomede Islands in the middle of the Bering Strait. The island is home to a Russian military base which is located midway along the island's ...
The Diomede Islands are named after Saint Diomedes.The Inupiaq name Iŋaliq 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 later than the date on Big ...
This page was last edited on 21 September 2020, at 17:06 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
All the buildings are on the west coast of Little Diomede, which is the smaller of the two Diomede Islands located in the middle of the Bering Strait between the United States and the Russian Far East. Diomede is the only settlement on Little Diomede Island. The population is 82 people, down from 115 at the 2010 census and 146 in 2000.
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.. Old Bering Sea is an archaeological culture associated with a distinctive, elaborate circle and dot aesthetic style and is centered on the Bering Strait region; no site is more than 1 km from the ocean.
Headlands and islands of the Bering Strait as seen from a point 25 miles (40 km) south of the Diomede Islands. Cape Dezhnev on the far left. Cape Dezhnyov or Cape Dezhnev ( Russian : мыс Дежнёва ; Eskimo–Aleut : Tugnehalha ; Inupiaq : Nuuġaq ), [ 1 ] formerly known as East Cape or Cape Vostochny , is a cape that forms the ...