marasydnyjade

marasydnyjade t1_j4yufur wrote

Okay, I admit I was missing some punctuation there.

However, oddly enough, Wales is a couple miles(?) from Big/Little Diomede and Little Diomede, which is the US island, is only accessible by helicopter/boat (year-round, weather permitting) 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.

I’ve been to the village of Wales (twice) and it was unbelievable how remote the village was. Wales also happens to be the westernmost part of the U.S.

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