Geography nerd delight: Fairway Rock SE of Little Diomede Island Alaska

[steve2470]

Google Maps: https://bit.ly/3c78IYL (to make sure the link does not break)

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairway_Rock

What you can find when you zoom in Google Maps

[keithbvadu2]

1. At first, I thought it might be named for golf, especially seeing the 'greens'.

At first, I thought it might be named for golf, especially seeing the 'greens'.

[FakeNoose]

2. It took me a while to figure out where this is

The red GPS marker shows that it's in the Bering Strait, almost halfway between Alaska and Eastern Russia.
Cool! This was the area that used to be the land-bridge between Asia and North America, am I right?

[steve2470]

3. I think, yes, thousands of years ago that was supposed to be the land bridge nt