We begin a new competition, this time with a significant chunk of people. (7 at last count)
Competition Site is here: http://www.bering-competition.org/
Deadline is: May 26, 2009
The goal is to connect the United States to Russia via the Bering Strait with a quirky little peace park located on one of the Diomede Islands. According to wikipedia Big Diomede (Ru) is approx. 11 sq. mi and Little Diomede (US) is 2.8 sq. mi with the international dateline lying in-between.
Little Diomede has a population of ~146 while the island of Big Diomede has a unknown number of persons after a forced evacuation during the 1940s.
Obviously the subject of the competition has been proposed before and has only increased in popular imagination in recent years including a Discovery Channel special.
Here's one of the other proposals: http://www.transglobalhighway.com/
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