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The Diomede Islands: where you can see tomorrow and visit yesterday

Popkin
Sep 05, 2025
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Little Diomede Island is an inhabited island of Alaska in the middle of the Bering Strait (Tetyana Dotsenko/shutterstock.com)

The Diomede Islands — two craggy specks in the middle of the Bering Strait—sit two and a half miles apart, but live in different days.

Little Diomede, a U.S. territory, and Big Diomede, a Russian territory, are split by the Interna…

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