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By swim in Chukotka
By swim in Chukotka
Although highly impractical, it is also possible to swim from the United States of America to Chukotka across the Bering Strait. To date only the legendary Lynne Cox has chosen this route, swimming 3 kilometers/2 miles from Little Diomede in Alaska to Big Diomede of the then Soviet Union. Reportedly, she requested a "babushka" for when she arrived, thinking she could take home a souvenir scarf. But babushka in Russian (as opposed to Polish) means "old lady"?so the Soviets made a babushka available at the site of her arrival, trained in medical care to revive the freezing traveler to health!
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