Little Diomede
Britishnoun
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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
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I sent the mail to Thompson, the government teacher on the Little Diomede Island, across 22 miles of floe ice by an Eskimo.
From The Blue Envelope by Snell, Roy J. (Roy Judson)
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