A fishing boat heads down the Wrangell Narrows past the tiny village of Petersburg on Mitkof Island in Frederick Sound with the Alaska Coast Range of mountains behind on Mitkof Island, Alaska. Petersburg settled by Norwegian immigrant Peter Buschmann is known as Little Norway due to the high percentage of people of Scandinavian origin.

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