Coghlan Island is an island in the City and Borough of Juneau,

Alaska Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S., ...

, United States. Located in

Stephens Passage Stephens Passage is a channel in the Alexander Archipelago in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Alaska. It runs between Admiralty Island to the west and the Alaska mainland and Douglas Island to the east, and is about 170 km (105& ...

, it is south of Fairhaven and northwest of the city of Juneau. It was named in 1885 by the

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for

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officer

Joseph Coghlan Rear Admiral Joseph Bulloch Coghlan (9 December 1844 – 5 December 1908) was an officer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War and the Spanish–American War. Biography Born at Frankfort, Kentucky, to Cornelius and Lavinia,, ...

, who commanded the USS ''Adams'' during its survey of southeastern Alaska from 1883 to 1884.

History

Former Alaska state legislator

Bruce Weyhrauch Bruce Weyhrauch is an attorney in Juneau, Alaska, United States. He is also a former representative in the Alaska State House representing Juneau's District 4. Weyhrauch has practiced at his own law office in Juneau for nearly three decades. ...

was stranded on Coghlan Island on April 22, 2007, after he fell out of his boat at about 6:00 PM that night; he was forced to swim to the island. The

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District Seventeen, Sector Juneau, searched for Weyhrauch during the night. A volunteer rescue team from the nonprofit organizatio
SEADOGS
located him at approximately 11:00 AM on April 23. A

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non-directional radio beacon is located on the island. It transmits the

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callsign CGL on a frequency of 212 kHz.

Notable flora and fauna

Coghlan Island was noted as the northernmost location of specimens of ''

Triopha catalinae ''Triopha catalinae'', commonly known as the sea clown triopha or sea clown, is a species of colorful sea slug called a nudibranch. Sea clowns are a shell-less marine, gastronomic mollusk in the taxonomic family Polyceridae. The species' Lati ...

'', a type of sea slug.''The Veliger''. Volume 19, Issues 3-4. California Malacozoological Society, 1976.

References

Islands of the Alexander Archipelago Islands of Juneau, Alaska Islands of Alaska {{JuneauAK-geo-stub