Follow her on Twitter theandrearomano. By Andrea Romano March 09, Save Pin FB More. International travel is a lot simpler than it sounds. She completed the crossing in just over two hours in degree water.
President Ronald Reagan. He used special prosthetics to do so. These days, the answer is no. The Bering Strait is relatively shallow at about 50 meters deep. However, if we could travel back in time about 10, years or so, it would be a different story. At the end of the last Ice Age, water levels dropped hundreds of feet as the water froze into massive glaciers. This exposed the vast, flat seafloor between modern-day Russia and Alaska.
In fact, it created a land bridge that scientists believe likely allowed human migration to the Americas. Read more to find out! Based on other bridges around the world, you could build a bridge between Alaska and Russia.
The closest towns of Wales, Alaska, and Uelen, Russia, are tiny and unconnected to any existing road network. The night before the swim, Mikhail Gorbachev himself intervened to grant Cox permission to make landfall on Big Diomede Island, and she was welcomed with a small beach party, and samovars full of hot tea, when she arrived on Soviet soil.
At a Washington D. The international border dividing the Diomedes is also the International Date Line, so a two-mile kayak ride between the islands is literally a trip back in time. But before you book your tickets, take note: the village of Diomede has no hotel and alcohol is banned, so it won't be much of a party. Explore the world's oddities every week with Ken Jennings, and check out his book Maphead for more geography trivia.
What is fascinating about this place is that it is just 2. One of the little known facts about Alaska is how close it truly is to Russia. On the satellite image above you can see just how tiny Little Diomede Island is.
It appears to be just a mere speck in the middle of the Bering Strait, separated between the United States on one side and Russia on the other. One of the wildest things about this is that the western and eastern hemispheres are separated by such a small area of sea here, yet Russia is a whole day ahead of Alaska. One of the surprising things about Alaska is how close we are to the date line that separates an entire 24 hours time difference between the two countries, even though geographically we are so close.
The population on Little Diomede Island is only around people, of which the entire community is essentially nestled on the side of a rock in the middle of the sea. The island has a total area that is only 2. The only really feasible way to get here is by boat or helicopter.
However, being that it is located in the middle of the sea, harsh weather often ensues and travel to and from Little Diomede Island is put on hold as the conditions can become very dangerous and deadly at the drop of a dime. On Little Diomede Island there are no hospitals or airports.
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