Ratmanoff Island
The Diomede Islands are a pair of rocky islands where Russia borders the United States across the Bering Strait. They represent the border between Asia and North America.
- Type: Island
- Description: island in the Bering Strait, Russia
- Also known as: “Big Diomede”, “Big Diomede Island”, “Bol’shoy Diomid”, “Bolshaya Diomida”, “Đảo Ratmanov”, “Diomède Supérieur”, “Diomedes Maior”, “Diomedes Mayor”, “Grand Diomède”, “Große Diomedes-Insel”, “Imaklit”, “Insula Ratmanov”, “Isla Ratmanov”, “Isola Ratmanov”, “Noo-nar-book”, “Noonarbook”, “Nunarbuk”, “Otok Ratmanov”, “Pulau Ratmanov”, “Ratmanof”, “Ratmanov Island”, “Ratmanov Ö”, “Ratmanovinsaari”, “Ratmanovøya”, “Большой Диомид”, “Востраў Вялікі Дзіямід”, “Вялікі Дыямэд”, “Имэлин”, “Ратманова Исланд”, and “大代奧米德島”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rocky Point and Diomede.
Diomede
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Ratmanoff Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Chukotka, Russian Far East, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude
65.78053° or 65° 46′ 50″ north
Longitude
-169.05968° or 169° 3′ 35″ west
Elevation
449 metres (1,473 feet)
Open location code
92QGQWJR+64
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Yue Chinese—“Ratmanoff Island” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Islla Diomedes Mayor”
- Azerbaijani: “Ratmanov adası”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Ратманава”
- Catalan: “ostrov Ratmanova”
- Cebuano: “Big Diomede Island”
- Chinese: “大代奥米德岛”
- Chinese: “拉特曼諾夫島”
- Chinese: “拉特曼诺夫岛”
- Croatian: “Veliki Diomed”
- Czech: “Velký Diomédes”
- Danish: “Ratmanova øen”
- Dutch: “Ostrov Ratmanova”
- Dutch: “Ratmanov”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بيج ديوميد”
- Estonian: “Ratmanovi saar”
- Finnish: “Iso-Diomede”
- Finnish: “Iso-Diomedes”
- French: “Île Ratmanov”
- French: “île Ratmanow”
- German: “Ratmanow-Insel”
- Hausa: “Babban Tsibirin Diomede”
- Hebrew: “דיומיד הגדול”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Diomede Besar”
- Inupiaq: “Imaqłiq”
- Italian: “Grande Diomede”
- Japanese: “ビッグダイオミード島”
- Japanese: “ラトマノフ島”
- Korean: “라트마노프섬”
- Latvian: “Ratmanova sala”
- Lithuanian: “Ratmanovo sala”
- Macedonian: “Голем Диомид”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Big Diomede Island”
- Polish: “Wyspa Ratmanowa”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Ratmanov”
- Romanian: “Insula Marele Diomede”
- Romanian: “Marele Diomede”
- Russian: “Остров Ратманова”
- Serbian: “Велики Диомед”
- Serbian: “Велико Диомедово острво”
- Slovenian: “Otok Ratmanova”
- Spanish: “Diómedes Mayor”
- Swedish: “Stora Diomedeön”
- Tamil: “பெரிய டையோமெதி தீவு”
- Turkish: “Büyük Diomede”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Ратманова”
- Vietnamese: “Big Diomede”
- Vietnamese: “Diomede Lớn”
- Western Frisian: “Ratmanov (eilân)”
- Western Frisian: “Ratmanov”
- Western Panjabi: “وڈا ڈائیومیڈ جزیرا”
- Yue Chinese: “大戴奧米德島”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Ratmanova and South Point.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Krysha and Diomede Island Airport.
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