[Avodah] Which way to Jerusalem?

[Simon Montagu]

By chance when looking for something else, I came across the following
at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qibla

"In recent years, Muslims from North America have used two rules to
determine the direction of the Qiblah. According to newly determined
spherical calculations a Muslim praying from Anchorage, Alaska would
pray almost due North if determining the Qiblah. However, when one
looks at the world on a Mercator map, Mecca appears to be southeast of
Anchorage. The rhumb line from most points in North America to Mecca
will point toward the southeast, but the distance to Mecca along this
route on the actual surface of the earth is longer than the great
circle route."

It's easy to see from a globe that the same is true, lehavdil, for the
distance from Alaska to Jerusalem. Does anyone happen to know in which
direction Jews in Alaska pray?