Diomede (Alaska)

Diomede
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Telephone code	+1 907
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Diomede is a village in Alaska, USA. The population for 2011 is 135 local residents - Eskimos. A school and a shop are open there, and mail in good weather is delivered by helicopter. It is located on the island of Kruzenshtern (Small Diomede), the Eskimo name Ingalik is “opposite”.

Content

1 Geography
2 Geology
3 History
- 3.1 1648-1867
4 notes

Geography

According to the US Census Bureau , the village has a total area of 2.84 square miles (7.4 km ² ). It is located entirely on the island of Kruzenshtern , which is located in the middle of the Bering Strait . The island is just 0.6 miles (0.97 km ) from the date line and 2.4 miles (3.9 km ) from the Russian island of Ratmanov .

Geology

Kruzenshtern Island consists of Cretaceous granite and quartz monzonite ^[1] ^[2] . The village is located on the only site that has a calm relief, the rest of the island consists of sharp rocks with a rise of about 40 ° and a height of 350-363 m. The vegetation on the island is very scarce.

History

The village is about 3000 years old ^[3] . At this time, the Inupiat came to the island from the west, who arranged a small settlement on it. According to archaeological finds, a culture was strongly developed on the island, an example of which were complex ceremonies of whale hunting ^[4] .

1648-1867

The first traveler to discover the island of Kruzenshtern was Dezhnev S.I. , who carried out the Chukotka expedition in 1648 . The second time the island was discovered on August 16, 1728 by Bering V.I. , who named the island Diomede in honor of St. Diomede .

In 1867, the island was acquired from the Russian Empire in the United States as part of the purchase of Alaska . The state border was drawn between the islands of Kruzenshtern and Ratmanov .

Notes

↑ Till, AB, et. al., Bedrock Geologic Map of the Seward Peninsula, Alaska, and Accompanying Conodont Data, Pamphlet to accompany Scientific Investigations Map 3131, USGS
↑ Gualtieri, Lyn and Julie Brigham-Grette, The Age and Origin of the Little Diomede Island Upland Surface, Arctic, Vol. 54, No. 1 (March 2001) pp. 12-21
↑ Diomede , The American Local History Network, 2005 , < http://www.alaskaweb.org/cmtys/diomede.html >
↑ Paul C. Barry (2001), Native American nations and languages (Neopr.) (Link unavailable) . Date of treatment December 8, 2016. Archived on April 14, 2018.

[1] Till, AB, et. al., Bedrock Geologic Map of the Seward Peninsula, Alaska, and Accompanying Conodont Data, Pamphlet to accompany Scientific Investigations Map 3131, USGS

[2] Gualtieri, Lyn and Julie Brigham-Grette, The Age and Origin of the Little Diomede Island Upland Surface, Arctic, Vol. 54, No. 1 (March 2001) pp. 12-21

[usgennet.org-3] Diomede , The American Local History Network, 2005 , < http://www.alaskaweb.org/cmtys/diomede.html >

[4] Paul C. Barry (2001), Native American nations and languages (Neopr.) (Link unavailable) . Date of treatment December 8, 2016. Archived on April 14, 2018.