Diomede Island, split into Big Diomede and Little Diomede, straddles the International Date Line. Big Diomede is called Tomorrow Island, and Little Diomede is Yesterday Island ...

The Inuit on Little Diomede are watched over by Russian soldiers. But that’s not their biggest problem in these icy badlands ...

The distance between them is just less than three miles and one of the island apiece is territory of the US and Russia.

Elon Musk has posted a video on his X page describing the geographical proximity of Russia and the United States.

That's the Russian island of Big Diomede on the right, and the US island Little Diomede in the distance on the left (Jacques Langevin/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images) The distance between them is ...