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  2. Little Diomede Island - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Diomede Islands - Wikipedia

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    The small habitation on Little Diomede Island is centered on the west side of the island at the village of Diomede. 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]

  4. Diomede, Alaska - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. August 7 - Wikipedia

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    1987 – Cold War: Lynne Cox becomes the first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing the Bering Strait from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union. [39] 1989 – U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX) and 15 others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia. [40]

  6. TikToker explains why it takes ‘15 days’ to travel between ...

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    TikTok users are freaking out after discovering the Diomede Islands, . two neighboring landmasses with an unreal travel time between them. The islands, located in the Bering Strait between Alaska ...

  7. 1987 - Wikipedia

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    Lynne Cox swims between the Diomede Islands from the American Little Diomede Island to the Soviet Big Diomede Island. Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system in Singapore opens for passenger service. [18] November 8 – Enniskillen bombing: Twelve people are killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb at a Remembrance Day service at Enniskillen.

  8. List of extreme points of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Long Island, New York – most extensive island of the U.S. Atlantic coast at 1,401 square miles (3,630 Padre Island , Texas 26°50′40″N 97°22′04″W  /  26.84444°N 97.36778°W  / 26.84444; -97.36778  ( Padre Island ) – most extensive Gulf of Mexico island at 209 square miles (540 km 2 ) and longest barrier island on Earth ...

  9. Jeffrey Epstein’s island: What really happened there? - AOL

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    In fact, the complaint argues that Epstein's purchase of Great St James was simply a ruse to hide what was happening on Little St James. “The Epstein Enterprise purchased the island for more ...