Imagine standing on the rocky shore of Little Diomede Island, Alaska, waving to your neighbors across the water on Big Diomede Island, Russia. Sounds like a scene from a quirky international sitcom, right? But this is no fictional setup. It’s the real-life geographic and temporal oddity presented by two small islands in the Bering Strait.There…
Alaska, constituent state of the United States of America. Admitted to the union as the 49th state on January 3, 1959, it lies at the extreme northwest of the North American continent. The Alaska Peninsula is the Western Hemisphere’s largest peninsula, and Alaska’s Denali is North America’s highest peak.