Little Diomede Island

From the village on Little Diomede Island, Russia is a short look across the water. The island sits in the middle of the Bering Strait, about 2.4 miles (3.8 km) from Russia's Big Diomede, with the U.S.–Russia border and the International Date Line running between them. That makes the gap one of the strangest in geography. When it is Monday on Little Diomede, it is already Tuesday on the Russian island, which is why the pair are nicknamed Yesterday Isle and Tomorrow Isle.

Little Diomede's only settlement is the Inupiat village of Diomede, called Iŋaliq in Inupiaq, with 83 residents at the 2020 census. Steep granite slopes leave almost no flat ground and no room for an airstrip, so a subsidized helicopter carries passengers and mail from Nome, a summer barge brings supplies, and in some winters planes landed on the frozen strait. During the Cold War the narrow channel was known as the Ice Curtain.

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