Big Diomede Island

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Big Diomede Island is a Russian-owned island in the Bering Strait, notable for lying just west of the International Date Line opposite Alaska’s Little Diomede Island.

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Big Diomede Island canonical 7
Big Diomede 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Arctic island
border island
island
alsoKnownAs Ostrov Ratmanova
linked to: Ratmanov Island

Ratmanov Island
archipelago Diomede Islands
area about 29 square kilometers
climate polar climate
country Russia
distanceTo about 3.8 kilometers from Little Diomede Island
evacuation indigenous residents relocated during Cold War
feature rocky coastline
steep cliffs
tundra vegetation
hasFacility Russian border guard station
military installation
highestElevation about 477 meters
historicalInhabitants Yupik people
linked to: Yup’ik people
length about 5.4 kilometers
locatedBetween Chukchi Peninsula and Seward Peninsula
locatedIn Arctic Ocean
Bering Strait
Chukchi Sea
Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Russian Far East
linked to: Russia Far East
locatedNear International Date Line
US–Russia maritime boundary
locatedNorthOf Aleutian Islands
locatedOpposite Little Diomede Island
locatedWestOf International Date Line
Little Diomede Island
namedAfter Mikhail Ratmanov
notableFor being one of the two Diomede Islands
lying just west of the International Date Line opposite Alaska’s Little Diomede Island
otherSideCountry United States
otherSideIsland Little Diomede Island
partOf Chukotsky District
Russia–United States border region
population uninhabited by civilians
region Siberia
separatedBy International Date Line
United States–Russia maritime boundary
separatedFrom Little Diomede Island
sovereignState Russian Federation
linked to: Russia
strategicImportance controls part of Bering Strait passage
timeZone Kamchatka Time
linked to: Anadyr Time
usedFor border surveillance
UTCOffset +12
width up to about 4 kilometers

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Bering Strait contains Big Diomede Island
Little Diomede Island neighboringIsland Big Diomede Island
Diomede Islands hasPart Big Diomede
linked to: Big Diomede Island
Ignaluk neighboringIsland Big Diomede Island
Ignaluk separatedFrom Big Diomede Island