For starters, the nearest land mass is Russia: The slightly larger Big Diomede Island is just over two miles away, within eyeshot of the Alaskan villagers.
Lesath (stars.astro.illinois.edu)LESATH (Upsilon Scorpii). Lesath, Scorpius’s Upsilon star, is intimately related in the observer’s eye to Shaula (Lambda Scorpii), the two making the Scorpion’s famed, and very real-looking, stinger.