Wrangell Narrows

Ketchikan to Petersburg

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June 21st 2012
<strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">(June 19th Continued) Anan Bay provides poor anchorage in an exposed bay with a steeply shelving bottom. So we went into the mountains beneath the peaks and above the chasms, rounding a couple of island sentries and into Berg Bay with little green meadows between the tide line and the dense forest. Snow fields loom directly abov ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more