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

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, 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 (10 ...

, 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, who commanded the during its survey of

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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. H ...

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'' is a genus of colorful sea slugs, nudibranchs, shell-less marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the family Polyceridae. Species Species within the genus ''Triopha'' include: * ''Triopha catalinae'' Cooper, 1863 * ''Triopha mac ...

'', 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