Alaska's Little Diomede Island lies just 2.4 miles from Big Diomede ... In 1948, Russia booted the native population off Big Diomede and made it into a military base, and most locals fled to ...
Little Diomede island is home to a small native local population known as the Native Village of Diomede. As of 2021, there were approximately 82 people who lived permanently on the island.