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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]
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 ...
The administrative entity was sequentially updated, upgraded and renamed. Thus, in 2013, the Federal State Budgetary Institution “Administration of the Northern Sea Route” was created by Russia. In 2022 organizational authority was transferred to the Main Directorate of the Northern Sea Route of Rosatom by Russia. [15]
This became moot in 1995, however, when the International Date Line was moved to the east of Kiribati and that country's easternmost time zone is now the world's earliest. After they established a military base there in 1948, the Soviet government relocated the indigenous population of Big Diomede Island to mainland Russia. [ 9 ]
The Chukotka Mountains are located in the central/western part of the peninsula, which is bounded by the Chukchi Sea to the north, the Bering Sea to the south, and the Bering Strait to the east, where at its easternmost point it is only about 60 km (37 mi) from Seward Peninsula in Alaska; this is the smallest distance between the land masses of ...
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.
The coastline paradox states that a coastline does not have a well-defined length. Measurements of the length of a coastline behave like a fractal, being different at different scale intervals (distance between points on the coastline at which measurements are taken).
The northernmost and easternmost points of Russia coincide with those of Eurasia (both for the mainland and including the islands). The extreme points of the Soviet Union were identical, except that the southernmost point of the Soviet Union was Kushka in Turkmenistan , and the extreme elevation was the Communism Peak in Tajikistan , at 7,495 ...