Little Diomede Island
United States · Americas
About
Little Diomede Island (Inupiaq: Iŋaliq), formerly known as Krusenstern Island, after Adam Johann von Krusenstern, (Russian: остров Крузенштерна, romanized: ostrov Kruzenshterna), is an inhabited island of Alaska. It is the smaller of the two Diomede Islands located in the Bering Strait between the Alaskan mainland and Siberia. The island has one town, also called Diomede.
The island is a day behind Big Diomede Island because they are separated by the International Date Line; as a result, it is sometimes referred to as Yesterday Island.
Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.