Little Diomede
The Diomedes are two small islands in the middle of the Bering Sea, populated by Inuit Eskimo people for centuries. The two islands are only a couple of miles apart in distance, but a day apart in time, separated by the International Dateline as well as an international border between the United States and Russia. Russia is thus our closest neighbor that does not share a land border. This was very significant during the cold war, as the islands somehow took on a strategic importance for both sides, putting an innocent population right in the middle of the hostilities and separating families by arbitrary borders and politics that had nothing to do with those who lived there.
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©Bill Yeaton