Talk:Diomede Islands

Westernmost point in Alaska

Is furthest "west" being determined by the IDL or by hemisphere, making the western Aleutians the furthest easternmost points in the US? Tomer^talk 23:24, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Inappropriately placed addition

An anon added this to the "See also" section:

Diomede has been home to Natives of Alaska for Millenia and the village itself is older than the cities of Paris and London. The Imaqlaq (spelling and pronounciation ?) which means people of the sea are actually from three villages on both of the Diomede Islands. Trading was a big and highly guarded occupation among the people of the Islands. War parties were set up to take care of "would be interlopers" trying to "horn in" on their territory. Alliances usually were with the Russian Villages and family ties were strong between them. Until 1948, travel between the villages were regular trips and everyone lived with no regard to Political Borders.

That all changed when the "Iron Curtain" Fell on Diomede and the Russian Island. Little is known why the Iron Curtain fell in Diomede but it had something to do with the paranoia of both the United States and the Soviet Union at the time. In essence the Global effects of the "Cold War" hit the residents of both islands the hardest. Because residents of both of the russian villages on Big Diomede Island were forcibly removed from their homes to the Mainland. The residents of Little Diomede did not know of this event and traveled to the big island and were "captured" by the awaiting Russian Border guards. They were held for 56 days and treated as the equivalent of Prisoners of War. Their diet consisted of Black Bread and Water. As a result some of the Village residents that were captured died shortly after as the result of malnutrition. After long negotiations between the US and the Soviet Union, the Families were allowed to return home. Family ties between the Russian Villages and the residents of Little Diomede were severed for over 40 years with no way to contact family members being held in the relocation towns in mainland russia.

Someone should make sure this is not a copyvio and merge it into the existing article. —Keenan Pepper 22:54, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

The information above could easily be verified by contacting BSSD's Director of Curriculum and Instruction. He can have students and teachers from the village check it out with first person sources.

Our school district also has a school on Little Diomede, and we have a really detailed video about the village a teacher and students worked on. Since it is a recruiting video for our personnel department, I don't want to link to it as a resource unless it would NOT be viewed as spam job. The video includes a helicopter trip out from the village of Wales, and many segments from the top of the island looking across the Strait. Opinions about the appropriateness, anyone? —Preceding unsigned comment added by BSSD UNK (talk • contribs) 11:23, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Kiribati

I removed this: "After 1995 however, parts of Kiribati are further east but still on the western side of the IDL, and also on a higher timezone (GMT+14)" because I don't think any parts of Kiribati picked themselves up and moved further east in 1995. If someone knows what this was supposed to say, please place it at the end of the article. —Largo Plazo 17:31, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

You have it backwards. In 1995, Kiribati moved the DATELINE to fit around its islands. There is more information here: International Date Line#Geography.--Henry W. Schmitt 23:41, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Circles

Unless Big and Little Diomede get their own article they shouldn't get a link, cause it just sends you back here, an excersize in uselessness, unless you somehow attach a line saying "To entertain an idiot click here." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.137.207.191 (talk) 16:40, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Third Paragraph

Is it me, or is the third paragraph of this article not exactly grammatically correct. JPP355 (talk) 18:20, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

You are correct, that is an atrocious paragraph. I did some work on it, but it still needs work. Robert Skyhawk (Talk) 00:41, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Sarah Palin Comments

I just removed the Sarah Palin interview by Katie Couric transcript. That is very irrelevant to this article and especially in the form of a transcript. If someone wants to include the fact that Palin said you can see Russia from Alaska it needs to make sense in the context of the islands and I have a hard time seeing that. The Palin interview really has nothing to do with the islands. A better place for mentioning this would be in the Sarah Palin article with a link to this one. Plus, there is already a link to the the story in external links. Fsamuels (talk) 02:58, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

ice bridge

The 2007-MAY-21 googleearth image shows an icebridge from one island to the other. Likely for much of the year it would be possible to walk from one island to the other. If so, it is notable enough to include in the article, yes?--174.6.101.30 (talk) 20:24, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

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Early history

The Islands were inhabited by the so called Indigenous long before 'Russians' arrived so why does the History start with them? They shouldn't be a throw away line. History doesn't revolve around 'Europeans' which is a self-perpetuating Macro-tribe ("Europeans") created narrative. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.188.210.35 (talk) 17:55, 18 October 2019 (UTC)

If you have a source that discusses pre-European habitation, please feel free to update the article. MB 18:16, 18 October 2019 (UTC)