Little Diomede
Little Diomede is an island in the Bering Strait. It is part of the Arctic Alaska region but below the Arctic Circle.Photo: Dave Cohoe, CC BY 3.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Nome Census Area, Alaska, United States
- Also known as: “City of Diomede”, “Ignalook”, “Krusenstern”, and “Little Diomede Island”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Diomede.
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.
Little Diomede
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Nome, Arctic Alaska, Alaska, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
65.7547° or 65° 45′ 17″ northLongitude
-168.9253° or 168° 55′ 31″ westPopulation
115Elevation
1,024 feet (312 metres)Open location code
92QHQ33F+VVOpenStreetMap ID
way 20747781OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Western Panjabi—“Little Diomede” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Islla Diomedes Menor”
- Azerbaijani: “Kruzenştern”
- Basque: “Diomedes Txikia uhartea”
- Cebuano: “Little Diomede Island”
- Chinese: “小代奧米德島”
- Czech: “Malý Diomedes”
- Czech: “Malý Diomédes”
- Dutch: “Klein Diomedes”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ليتل ديوميد ايسلاند”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ليتل ديوميد”
- Estonian: “Little Diomede”
- Finnish: “Pieni-Diomede”
- Finnish: “Pieni-Diomedes”
- French: “île Krusenstern”
- French: “Île Petite Diomède”
- German: “Diomede”
- German: “Kleine Diomedes-Insel”
- German: “Little Diomede Island”
- Hebrew: “דיומד הקטן”
- Hebrew: “דיומיד הקטן”
- Hungarian: “Kis Diomede-sziget”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Diomede Kecil”
- Inupiaq: “Iŋaliq”
- Italian: “Piccola Diomede”
- Japanese: “リトルダイオミード島”
- Korean: “리틀 다이오메드 섬”
- Korean: “리틀다이오미드섬”
- Latvian: “Mazā Diomida sala”
- Macedonian: “Мал Диомид”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Little Diomede Island”
- Norwegian: “Little Diomede Island”
- Polish: “Little Diomede Island”
- Polish: “Mała Diomeda”
- Portuguese: “Diomedes Menor”
- Russian: “остров Крузенштерна”
- Russian: “Остров Крузенштерна”
- Serbian: “Мали Диомед”
- Serbian: “Мало Диомедово острво”
- Spanish: “Diomedes Menor”
- Spanish: “Diómedes Menor”
- Swedish: “Lilla Diomedeön”
- Tamil: “சிறிய டையோமெதி தீவு”
- Turkish: “Küçük Diomede Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Малий Діомід”
- Vietnamese: “Diomede Nhỏ”
- Western Frisian: “Lyts-Diomedes”
- Western Panjabi: “چھوٹا ڈائیومیڈ جزیرا”
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