Michael Palin "Last Day of World War One", produced for the BBC's "Timewatch" series. Palin was instrumental in setting up the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children in 1993. Also in 1993, each member of Monty Python had an asteroid named after him. Palin's is Asteroid 9621 Michaelpalin. In 2003, inside the Globe a commemorative stone was placed - Palin has his own stone, to mark donors to the theatre, but it is misspelt as "Michael Pallin". The story goes that John Cleese paid for the stone, and mischievously insisted on misspelling his name. In honour of his achievements as a traveller,
Little Diomede Island Bering Strait is generally frozen between mid-December and mid-June. The Little Diomede island is composed of Cretaceous age granite or quartz monzonite. The location of the city is the only area which does not have near-vertical cliffs to the water. Behind the city and around the entire island rocky slopes rise at about 40° up to the relatively flattened top in . The island has very scant vegetation. Little Diomede was featured in the first episode of "Full Circle with Michael Palin", a BBC documentary series in which the broadcaster Michael Palin traversed many of the countries of the Pacific