Anna Kempe lived as a young girl at the westcoast of Finland. In her life this was then a part of Russia. But at home Anna and her siblings spoke swedish. The region is also called Österbotten, because it was the name of the region from the period when Finland still belonged to Sweden, I think. On the swedish side there are regions called Norrbotten and Västerbotten.
Today Finland and Sweden are linked in many ways. Of course geographically as before. But different countries today. Different governments, different administrative systems. Different languages in some parts. (In eastern Finland more people speak finnish than swedish )
Mountains on the westcoast are not the Himalayas. But Anna wanted maybe to get higher...
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