Diomede Islands

The Diomede Islands are a pair of rocky islands where Russia borders the United States across the Bering Strait. They represent the border between Asia and North America. The continents meet at the middle of the strait, where the two islands are only 3 km (2 mi) apart.

• Little Diomede (Yesterday Island), home to an Iñupiat village in Alaska, is moderately easily accessible but still very remote.
• Big Diomede (Tomorrow Island) in the Russian Far East is home to a military base, therefore off limits to all but the determined.

The Diomede Islands are the only place in the world save for Antarctica where you can see land across the International Date Line and theoretically the easiest place in the world to cross between Asia and North America. Big Diomede is 21 hours ahead of Little Diomede because of time zones and the presence of the International Date Line between the islands.

Little Diomede is the westernmost part of Alaska, United States. The town of Diomede, on the island's west side, is home to all of the island's 135 inhabitants. The islanders are Iñupiat Inuit.

Big Diomede or Ostrov Ratmanova (о́стров Ратма́нова) is the easternmost point of Russia. While it has no permanent population, it is host to a weather station and a military installation.

Getting legally in or out either from east or west is not that easy. There are no official border stations in either country. Almost everyone needs a visa for Russia, on top of this a special permit for the Chukotka region and the area being used by the military you will likely need another permit for that. Therefore, it is highly unlikely to be able to travel to this region, especially with the tensions between the U.S. and Russia along with the military presence on the island.