The other day I found this photograph above on a friend’s Facebook page. The photograph was taken from an airplane while the friend was traveling Alaska on behalf of their job in the American government. Around the time Republican vice-presidential candidate made a gaff about being able to see Russia from Alaska, I remembered how there was only one spot in America where this was the case and it just so happened that my friend had recently been there.
Known as the Diomede Islands in America or the Gvozdev Islands in Russia, the two islands are only split by about 4 kilometers. What I’ve always thought was interesting is that the houses on Little Diomede (above) face tomorrow. Due to the placement of the International Date Line, the Russian side is one of the first territories to start the day. This means folks on Big Diomede can also see yesterday.
NASA satellite image of the Diomede Islands
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9/4/2008 || 8:34 pm
Wasilla, Alaska is literally off the map, the Google Map that is
The Republican Party’s vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin is the former mayor of Wasilla, Alaska. Tonight this website had a visitor from Wasilla, Alaska who looked at this statehood-related map. Upon looking at the city on Google Maps, I found out that Wasilla is a border city where the imagery of the geography shows only a portion of the city using new high-resolution imagery. In some ways, this map proves that Republican Party’s vice-presidential choice was literally off the map.
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3/18/2006 || 8:33 am
Anchorage Quilt #2
The green strip of land is called Delaney Park…
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3/17/2006 || 8:29 am
Anchorage Quilt
I went to Anchorage back in 1996. It was summertime and it never really got that dark out at night. I have so many fond memories & good stories from Alaska. I’ll go back there some day soon!
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