> or plane (only in winter). It can only be accessed by plane in the winter because the straight between the Diomede islands ices over and a plane can use that as a runway. Otherwise there isn’t a runway on Little Diomede.

It's been many years since they were able to do that. Now it's all helicopter.

> Wales also happens to be the westernmost part of the U.S.

Perhaps the westernmost part of the continental US, but there are many occupied places further west, such as Diomede, Saint Lawrence Island, and the western parts of the Aleutians.