1895 Map of Alaska. Source: 1895 U.S. Atlas. "Russia has sold us a sucked orange. Whatever may be the value of that territory and its outlying islands to us, it has ceased to be of any to Russia.

The connection between Russian exploration and Alaska Native exploitation that began in 1745 continued as Russia took firm hold ... was not an ethnographer or a map-maker. He was a business ...

A map shared to social media in mid-October 2024 accurately compared the size of Texas to Europe. The map shared online ...

After the U.S. 1867 purchase of Alaska from Russia, the inherited treaty needed ... The countries would create maps based on ...

An interesting geographical fact is that Finland and North Korea are separated by only one country. That country is Russia.

noting that Soolook told Insider that life on the island hasn't changed dramatically since Russia invaded Ukraine. "We keep the eyes and ears." The city of Diomede, Alaska, on Little Diomede ...

The sun had yet to rise over Iceland as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. CQ Brown boarded a Navy submarine-hunting ...

Specifically, two Chinese coast guard vessels, accompanied by two Russian border guard patrol vessels, were observed by the U.S. Coast Guard near the maritime boundary between the U.S. and Russia.

Russia and China have staged a joint patrol over the north Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea near the coast of Alaska. The two countries have carried out several joint patrols in the past ...

The United States made the deal of the centuries — securing the vast Alaska territory from Russia for $7.2 million — on this day in history, Oct. 18, 1867. The transfer of 665,000 square miles ...

Russia has imposed hurdles of its own on cooperation with the West. Syndonia Bret-Harte, the science director of Toolik Field Station and a University of Alaska Fairbanks professor. “It is like ...

America's largest nonfiction film festival, featuring more than 200 features and shorts, returns to New York City theaters ...