Little Diomede
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Big Diomede is in Russia, and Little Diomede is in the US state of Alaska.
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2026
They were informed of a pregnant woman with severe abdominal pains in Diomede, a village of 80 people on the western side of Little Diomede Island.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2023
Using tailor-made flippers, Philippe Croizon finished his quest by crossing between the US island of Little Diomede and Great Diomede in Russia, joining Asia and the Americas.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2012
Early this month the Wanderer took a 2 1/2- mile stroll across the frozen Bering Strait, from America's Little Diomede Island to Big Diomede in the U.S.S.R.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two would go in a pigeon-hole, for Thompson, the teacher on Little Diomede Island, twenty-two miles across the drifting ice.
From The Blue Envelope by Snell, Roy J. (Roy Judson)
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