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Island in the Bering Strait off Alaska, U.S.
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Little Diomede is an island in the Bering Strait. It is part of the Arctic Alaska region but below the Arctic Circle.
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Big Diomede Island
Only 2 mi (3.2 km) away, the Big Island is easily seen from here.
It's not marked but it passes between the two islands. It is the only place where the Date Line, and land on the other side of it, is visible from land (except maybe Antarctica, but Antarctica has no legal time zone borders so there is no well defined Date Line there).
The island is so far from anywhere that the senator representing Alaska between 1968 and 2009 noted down his amazement with the above quote on his visit to the island in 2002, after arriving by a Black Hawk helicopter —…
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