- Does anyone live on Big Diomede island? ... Little Diomede Island is unique in so many ways and has a lot to offer visitors with many different interests.
- Here is a small fun fact On the west edge of Little Diomede Island in Alaska, there is a small town called Diomede, AK which has a population of about 125.
- The big Diomede Island is located on the Russian side, while Little Diomede is on the US side, the pair separated by the western and eastern hemispheres.
- The larger island, Big Diomede, is Russian, while the smaller is part of Alaska. ... The first European explorer to the islands was the Danish Vitus Bering in 1728.
- Big Diomede is 21 hours ahead of Little Diomede because of time zones and the presence of the International Date Line between the islands.
- Imelin, Inuit. Imaqliq) is an island in the Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait, the most eastern point of the territory of the Russian Federation.
- The first and last dates of transmission south of the Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait (65.75[degrees]N) are termed 'Earliest' and 'Latest,' respectively.
- The islands are flat-topped and rocky, surrounded by rough seas and heavy fog. The village of Diomede is located on the western shore of Little Diomede.
- The Diomede Islands (Big Diomede and Little Diomede) are two rocky islands located in the middle of the Bering Strait between Alaska and Siberia.
- DIOMEDE ISLANDS ,. two rocky islands , Bering Strait, about halfway between Alaska and the Chukotsky Autonomous Okrug, extreme NE Russian Federation...