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The Diomede Islands lie directly in the middle of the Bering Strait.

Suggestions have been made for the construction of a bridge spanning the Bering Strait between AlaskaOn January 3, 1959, Alaska was admitted to the United States as the 49th state. The population of the state is 626,932, as of 2000. The name "Alaska" is most likely derived from the Aleut word for "great country" or "mainland. The natives called it "Alyes and SiberiaSiberia ( Russian: , common English transliterations: Sibir Sibir' is a vast region of Russia and northern Kazakhstan, constituting all of northern Asia, and extending eastward from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, and southward from the Arctic Oc, dubbed by some the Intercontinental Peace Bridge , and, alternatively, for a connecting tunnelSwitzerland subway. canal tunnel. A tunnel is an underground passage. When designed for use by traffic, it may be called an underpass . It may be for pedestrians and/or cyclists, for general road traffic, for motor vehicles only, for rail traffic, or for underneath the strait.

During the ice ageFor the animated movie, see Ice Age (movie . For the band, see Ice Age (band . An ice age is a period of long-term downturn in the temperature of Earth's climate, resulting in an expansion of the polar ice caps and mountain glaciers (" glaciation"). Glacis, the area of the strait was a land bridgeLand bridge is essentially a historical term: it refers to dry land exposed during periods of low sea level (see regression), connecting what are now separate continents or islands. The best-known is the Bering land bridge, which connected Asia and North known as the Bering land bridgeThe Bering land bridge also known as Beringia was a land bridge roughly 1600 km (1000 miles) across, which is believed to have joined present-day Alaska and eastern Russia at various times during the ice ages. The sea floor under the Bering Strait is shal.