Inside the tiny remote island where US is just 2 MILES from Russia…& locals can SEE the New Year a day before it arrives A TINY remote island that sits just two miles between the US and Russia allows residents to bring in the new year a day before it arrives.
Alaska's Little Diomede Island lies just 2.4 miles from Big Diomede, which is the easternmost point of Russia.
Stranger still, because of where the international dateline falls, Big Diomede is a whole 21 hours ahead of Little Diomede despite being so close.
The tiny location is just 2.8 square miles in size, and can be found in the middle of the Bering Strait 16 miles off the Alaskan coast.
There are around 30 buildings on the island, mostly built in the 1970s and 80s.
