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Laub Andrew made his TikTok debut with a geography lesson on Feb. 22, which shows the two Diomede Islands out in the Bering Strait.
Big Diomede is an 11.2-square-mile island that is a part of Russia and Little Diomede is a 2.8-square-mile island that is a part of Alaska. The Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait are separated by the International Date Line with Russia s Big Diomede Island being 21 hours ahead of Alaska s Little Diomede. (Orbital Horizon/Copernicus Sentinel Data 2018/Gallo Images/Getty Images) These islands are only two-and-a-half miles apart, which means that in the winter when the water freezes, you can walk from the United States to Russia in only 20 minutes, Andrew explained.
International travel is a lot simpler than it sounds.
A TikTok user called laubandrew posted a video that explains just how you can actually walk from Alaska to Russia. The explanation is mostly hypothetical, but it s an interesting way to show just how close North America is to the Asian continent. aerial view of Big and Little Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait between Russia and Alaska
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In the video, laubandrew notes the close proximity of two islands in the Bering Strait that mark the division between Russia and the United States. The first island is called Big Diomede, which is 25 miles off the coast of Russia, and the second island is called Little Diomede, which is about 16 miles off the coast of Alaska.