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Pioneering open water swimmer visits Petersburg
Posted by Joe Viechnicki | Jul 8, 2021
(Image courtesy of Lynne Cox)
A pioneer in the field of open water swimming, motivational speaker and author makes her first visit to Petersburg this week.
64-year-old Lynne Cox has completed dozens of swims in extreme conditions around the globe, from Antarctica to the Bering Strait. That’s perhaps her most famous swim, in August of 1987 when she swam nearly three miles from Little Diomede to Big Diomede Island in the Bering Strait, crossing the border from Alaska into the Soviet Union. She trained for that challenge in Nome and received encouragement from a Petersburg fishermen as she swam along the Nome shoreline.
Cleveland author outlines ‘100 Things To Do In Alaska Before You Die,” from snorkeling to searching for gold Susan Glaser, cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio Many visitors to Alaska barely see beyond the shore, as passengers on large cruise ships that sail the scenic southeast coast.
Maybe this is the summer to extend that vision past the gangplank, and into the state’s interior.
Cleveland author Fran Golden has plenty of ideas to get you started. Golden, with co-author Midgi Moore, just published “100 Things to Do in Alaska Before You Die” (Reedy Press, $19.95), a trove of ideas both unfamiliar and tried and true.
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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.