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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolverine GTR" data-source="post: 16367524" data-attributes="member: 158020">දවසින්_වෙන්වෙමු<img src="http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/5259/1yez.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Diomede Islands: Two Islands Split by the US-Russian Border and the International Date Line<img src="http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/2855/w6su.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> The Diomede Islands are a pair of rocky islands located in the middle of  the Bering Strait between mainland Alaska and Siberia. Though the two  islands are only 3.8 km apart and clearly in a single group, they are  separated by the International Date line which also marks the  international border between Russia and the United States. Big Diomede  is owned by Russia and Little Diomede is owned by the USA. Additionally,  Big Diomede is 23 hours ahead of Little Diomede owing to the  International Date Line that passes between them, because of this they  are sometimes called Tomorrow Island and Yesterday Isle, respectively. <img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-VbVIvZEA4vo/UxCe-U-44pI/AAAAAAAAwak/_rYiPHQKhuY/diomede-island-map2%25255B3%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Both islands are flat-topped, steep-sided and very isolated by its  location, by rough seas, and by the persistent fog that shrouds the  islands during the warmer months. During the freezing winter, sometimes  moving chunks of ice clog in the open waters forming an ice bridge  connecting the two islands. At such times one can practically walk  between the United States and Russia. Of course, this is only in theory.  Crossing the Bering Strait is not legally permitted. The  islands were originally inhabited by Yupik Eskimos as long as 3,000  years ago. The first European to reach the islands was the Russian  explorer Semyon Dezhnyov in 1648. Eighty years later, it was  re-discovered by the Danish navigator Vitus Bering on August 16, 1728,  the day on which the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates the memory of  the martyr St. Diomede.When the United States purchased Alaska  from Russia in 1867, it included the Little Diomede. The new boundary  was drawn between the two Diomede Islands and the Big Diomede was left  to Russia. While Little Diomede developed into a small community  of about 75 individuals, with a church and school, Big Diomede became a  Russian military base. After World War II the native population was  driven off the island to avoid contacts across the border, and any  Little Diomede inhabitants who strayed across the waters too close to  Big Diomede where taken captive by the Russians. Today it has no  permanent population but it is the site of a Russian weather station and  a base of Russian Border guard troops Little Diomede Eskimos  live a subsistence lifestyle, harvesting fish and crab, hunting beluga  whales, walrus, seals and polar bears. Most supplies come from an annual  barge delivery from the mainland from stores like Wal-Mart. A few  residents work for the local government or school. There has been some  commercial fishing and mining on the island, but both industries are in  decline. <img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-rj5HNHZXdj4/UxCfBs1k3VI/AAAAAAAAwas/0eGwNKdjnrc/diomede-islandsl-1%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> (Big Diomede island on the left. Little Diomede island on the right) <img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-wIrstQkNMc4/UxCfEoz0vEI/AAAAAAAAwa0/nKcPX4HckpM/diomede-islandsl-6%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-hQSsUMtlPx0/UxCfHiFRr0I/AAAAAAAAwa8/gHjcSsshZts/diomede-islandsl-9%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> (Diomede (Inalik) village on the west coast of Little Diomede Island, Alaska.) <img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-SYZ5_8Xxnf4/UxCfKk6kh_I/AAAAAAAAwbE/mcUaMFW0Ols/diomede-islandsl-8.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> (The native village of Little Diomede island.) <img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-sh3lWJvKMbQ/UxCfNIZWUJI/AAAAAAAAwbM/9hIxA-yepAw/diomede-islandsl-4%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-ZmnxCAL1e3U/UxCfQNQzRMI/AAAAAAAAwbU/1EzBz4HoEXk/diomede-islandsl-3%25255B6%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-rJQrlTtNWxs/UxCfTLRUJEI/AAAAAAAAwbc/ABFKl6LlG0M/diomede-islandsl-2%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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