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Old 03-11-2009, 01:40 PM   #4844 (permalink)
uncle phil
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the only other island east of there and west of the IDL is preobrazhenskoye...
this is the best i've got, based on your clues...

there ain't nothin else 600 miles east of ostrov beringa and still west of the IDL...
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