Diomede Island
Yes literally you can see Tomorrow or Yesterday, For that you need to visit this 2 islands
Little Diomede (Also Know as Yesterday Island )
Big Diomede ( Also Know as Tomorrow Isle )
Little Diomede on Left and Big Diomede on Right https://readtiger.com/wkp/en/Diomede_Islands |
This Islands are Located in Bering Straits.The Little one called as Little Diomede belongs to USA and the Bigger one called as Big Diomede belongs to Russia . Little Diomede is with an area 7.3 km2, a population of 170, and is part of Alaska - 25 km from main land. Big Diomede is with an area of 29 km2 and no population, and is part of Siberia - 25 km from main land.
International Border and Date Line between Diomede Islands https://readtiger.com/wkp/en/Diomede_Islands |
The islands are separated by an international border, which is also part of the International Date Line, about 2 km from each island. At their closest points, the two islands are about 3.8 km apart.
Due to the international Date Line the Big Diomede is almost a day ahead of Little Diomede, but not completely; due to locally defined time zones, Big Diomede is only 21 hours ahead of Little Diomede.
Because of this the islands are sometimes called Tomorrow Island (Big Diomede) and Yesterday Isle (Little Diomede). So looking at Big Diomede from Little Diomede - one can see 'tomorrow' and looking at Little Diomede from Big Diomede - one can see 'Yesterday'as the time difference between the two islands is nearly 21 hrs.
Satellite image of the Diomede Islands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Diomede |
During winter, an ice bridge usually spans the distance between these two islands; therefore during such times it is theoretically possible (although not legal, since travel between the two islands is forbidden) to walk between the United States and Russia.
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