The World Views of the US Presidential Election: 2008, Matthias Maass, Macmillan, 2009, ISBN 978-0-230-61868-8, ... The Alaskan Department of Commerce and Economic Development notes that, Alaska and Russia are less than 3 miles apart at their closest point in the Bering Strait where two islands, Russia's Big Diomede Island and Alaska's Little Diomede Island are located. In winter it is possible to walk across the frozen Bering Strait border between these two islands ...
Feeling the Heat: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Climate Change, Jim Motavalli, pp. 96, Psychology Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-415-94656-8, ... Before such boundaries, interactions between the two islands were close and constant, with both isles boasting members of the same families; then the Iron Curtain bisected the Bering Strait, and the people of Big Diomede were forcibly assimilated into mainland Soviet society ...
Encyclopedia of the ArcticArchived 2018-11-20 at the वेबैक मशीन, Mark Nuttall, pp. 494, Routledge, 2005, ISBN 978-1-57958-437-5, ... The settlement of Kunga, on the north end of Big Diomede, was abandoned prior to the 20th century, possibly as a result of famine. However, the settlement of Imaqthliq, toward the southerly end of the western shore, was a viable, although dwindling, community until a remnant population was removed to the mainland village of Naukan in 1948 and further dispersed to to larger towns in the Chukotka region when Naukan was closed in 1958 ...
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Encyclopedia of the ArcticArchived 2018-11-20 at the वेबैक मशीन, Mark Nuttall, pp. 494, Routledge, 2005, ISBN 978-1-57958-437-5, ... The settlement of Kunga, on the north end of Big Diomede, was abandoned prior to the 20th century, possibly as a result of famine. However, the settlement of Imaqthliq, toward the southerly end of the western shore, was a viable, although dwindling, community until a remnant population was removed to the mainland village of Naukan in 1948 and further dispersed to to larger towns in the Chukotka region when Naukan was closed in 1958 ...
