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Big Diomede (Bering Strait) - 1999

Big Diomede (Bering Strait) - 1999

Jacek Pałkiewicz
2006-06-18 22:48:36

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Where it rises the new year

A lot of people were picked up by the fever of the last night of the Millennium. Various tour operator and governments of the islands of the Pacific have instigated real competitions to offer the first 2000 dawn.

The first ones that have entered the third Millennium were those people who were found to the western limit of the Conventional Line of the Change of Date. They heve takings of assault the islands Figi, Tonga and Kiribati. The Kiribatis are rechristened "Islands of the Millennium". This has already happened in 1995, when with wise foresight Kiribati moved to east of 30 degrees, around 1.600 km, the border of the new day. In this way it is found in 95 minutes before Tonga. The game of the fake line of change of date has immediately been rejected by the authoritative Royal Geographical Society by the Observatory in Greenwich and so many other geographical institutions.

From the careful studies it unquestionably results that the point clou for the passage of the Millennium was found on the Great Diomede island, 40 km offshore Cape Deznev in the Strate of Bering, that divides Russia from the United States.

Jacek Palkiewicz has visited her a few days before 2000.

The island is the last edge of Russian earth (169°15' long.west) to 11 fused schedules from Europe. It's one of the two islands of the archipelago Diomedea (the other one is Krusenstern and it belongs to the United States). On the island (surface of 28 kmsq) of extraterrestrial loneliness with the wild panorama, forgotten from Moscow and from God, lives 25 soldiers of border guard. The waters that surround it are populated from whales, walruses and seals.

Island on the edge of the third millennium

On top of all the red tape, our trip in Chukot has now run into bad weather, and Provideniya airport is closed.

My friend Victor Burstein informs us that in ...