Big Diomede
Big Diomede Island is the easternmost point of Russia, in the Bering Strait. While it has no permanent population, it is host to a weather station and a military installation. Little Diomede, only a few kilometers away, is the westernmost part of Alaska.Photo: Dave Cohoe, CC BY 3.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Island
- Description: island in the Bering Strait, Russia
- Also known as: “Big Diomede Island”, “Bol’shoy Diomid”, “Bolshaya Diomida”, “Imaklit”, “Noo-nar-book”, “Noonarbook”, “Nunarbuk”, “Ratmanof”, “Ratmanoff Island”, and “Ratmanov Island”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Diomede and Rocky Point.
Diomede
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Diomede is an incorporated island city in the U.S. state of Alaska. Little Diomede Island is the smaller of the two Diomede Islands that are located in the middle of the Bering Strait; the larger of the two islands, Big Diomede Island, is part of Russia.
Big Diomede
- Category: landform
- Location: Chukotka, Russian Far East, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Big Diomede from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Asturian to Yue Chinese—“Big Diomede” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Islla Diomedes Mayor”
- Azerbaijani: “Ratmanov adası”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Вялікі Дзіямід”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Ратманава”
- Belarusian: “Вялікі Дыямэд”
- Catalan: “ostrov Ratmanova”
- Cebuano: “Big Diomede Island”
- Cebuano: “Ratmanov Island”
- Chinese: “大代奥米德岛”
- Chinese: “大代奧米德島”
- Chinese: “大戴奧米德島”
- Chinese: “拉特曼诺夫岛”
- Chinese: “拉特曼諾夫島”
- Croatian: “Otok Ratmanov”
- 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”
- Finnish: “Ratmanovinsaari”
- French: “Diomède Supérieur”
- French: “Grand Diomède”
- French: “Île Ratmanov”
- French: “île Ratmanow”
- German: “Große Diomedes-Insel”
- German: “Ratmanow-Insel”
- Hebrew: “דיומיד הגדול”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Diomede Besar”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Ratmanov”
- Inupiaq: “Imaqłiq”
- Italian: “Grande Diomede”
- Italian: “Isola Ratmanov”
- 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”
- Macedonian: “Остров Ратманова”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Big Diomede Island”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ratmanovøya”
- Polish: “Wyspa Ratmanowa”
- Portuguese: “Diomedes Maior”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Ratmanov”
- Romanian: “Insula Marele Diomede”
- Romanian: “Insula Ratmanov”
- Romanian: “Marele Diomede”
- Russian: “Большой Диомид”
- Russian: “Имэлин”
- Russian: “Остров Ратманова”
- Serbian: “Велики Диомед”
- Serbian: “Велико Диомедово острво”
- Serbian: “Ратманова Исланд”
- Slovenian: “Otok Ratmanova”
- Spanish: “Diomedes Mayor”
- Spanish: “Diómedes Mayor”
- Spanish: “Isla Ratmanov”
- Swedish: “Ratmanov Ö”
- Swedish: “Stora Diomedeön”
- Tamil: “பெரிய டையோமெதி தீவு”
- Turkish: “Büyük Diomede”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Ратманова”
- Vietnamese: “Big Diomede”
- Vietnamese: “Đảo Ratmanov”
- Vietnamese: “Diomede Lớn”
- Western Frisian: “Ratmanov (eilân)”
- Western Frisian: “Ratmanov”
- Western Panjabi: “وڈا ڈائیومیڈ جزیرا”
- Yue Chinese: “大戴奧米德島”
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