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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Two rocky islands in the Bering Strait between Alaska and Siberia. Little Diomede belongs to the United States; Big Diomede, to Russia.
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Examples
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The first human beings who appeared on the Diomede Islands were a man and a woman who came down from the sky.
A Treasury of Eskimo Tales Clara Kern Bayliss
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Early season strong winds move sea ice northward and the marine mammals on the retreating ice are quickly out of range of some villages (notably those on St. Lawrence and Diomede Islands, and Shishmaref).
Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic 2009
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As the Volvo-driving, post-2003-Dixie-Chick listening chatterclass complains that Palin's homes in Juneau and Wasilla are 1,202 and 657 miles, respectively from the Diomede Islands, they overlook that meeting heads of island governing councils is like having a fat résuméé.
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This account of the Dance Festivals of the Alaskan Eskimo was written from material gathered in the Bering St.ait District during three years 'residence: two on the Diomede Islands, and one at St. Michael at the mouth of the Yukon River.
The Dance Festivals of the Alaskan Eskimo Ernest William Hawkes
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In 1909, six illicit stills were seized on the Diomede Islands.
The Dance Festivals of the Alaskan Eskimo Ernest William Hawkes
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The Diomede Islands, halfway station of the Straits, were small; they offered a goal only two or three miles in length.
The Blue Envelope 1918
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So it happened that in due time the ice floe on which the Russian had sought refuge drifted past the Diomede Islands and farther out, well into the Arctic Ocean, met the floe on which the Jap girl had been lost as it circled to the east.
Triple Spies 1918
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He had located accurately the position of the Diomede Islands, half way station in the Strait.
Triple Spies 1918
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So with many a backward glance at the gleaming North Star, the two girls set their course south by east, a course which in time should bring them in the vicinity of the Diomede Islands.
The Blue Envelope 1918
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They would, if they did not change their course, in time reach the vicinity of the Diomede Islands.
The Blue Envelope 1918
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