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Benjamin Island (Alaska)

Field	Value
name	Benjamin Island
location	Juneau City and Borough, Alaska
coordinates
archipelago	Alexander Archipelago
length_mi	1.5
width_mi	0.5
elevation_ft	92
country	United States
country_admin_divisions_title	State
country_admin_divisions	Alaska
country_admin_divisions_title_1	Borough
country_admin_divisions_1	Juneau

Benjamin Island (or Benjamin Islet) is an island in the City and Borough of Juneau, Alaska, United States. It was named by Captain Lester A. Beardslee of the United States Navy in 1880. Located off the eastern shore of Favorite Channel, it is 25 mi northwest of the city of Juneau.

Benjamin Island is 1.5 mi long and 0.5 mi wide. It is about 0.75 mi north of the Sentinel Island Light and 0.25 mi south of North Island; it is one of the northernmost islands in Favorite Channel. The island is a part of the Channel Islands State Marine Park; it is used for picnicking and camping.

History

The Canadian Pacific Railway's SS Princess Sophia grounded on Vanderbilt Reef to the north early in the morning of October 24, 1918, in the midst of a snowstorm. The United States Lighthouse Service tender Cedar, captained by John W. Ledbetter, had taken up shelter at a cove of Benjamin Island when it received word of the passenger liner's plight at 14:00 that day. The Cedar left Benjamin Island almost immediately but did not reach the reef until 22:00.

Wildlife

Humpback whales and Steller sea lions live in the area of the island. A cow moose was noted on the island in 2005.

A joint project between the National Marine Fisheries Service and the University of Alaska Fairbanks placed cameras on the island for the purposes of studying the sea lions.

References

[https://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1420366 USGS GNIS Feature Detail Report: Benjamin Island]
U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. ''United States Coast Pilot: Alaska, Part I: Dixon Entrance to Yakutat Bay''. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1952.
U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. ''United States Coast Pilot: Alaska, Part I: Dixon Entrance to Yakutat Bay, Fifth Edition'', p. 50. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1908.
"Channel Islands State Marine Park Management Plan".
Newell, Gordon R. ed., ''H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest'', Superior Publishing, Seattle, Washington 1966 (no ISBN)
Chandonnet, Ann. (June 8, 2003). "Tragedy at Sea". [[Juneau Empire]].
O'Keefe, Betty and Macdonald, Ian. ''The Final Voyage of the Princess Sophia: Did they all have to die?'' Surrey, British Columbia: Heritage House Publishing Company Ltd., 1998.
Woodford, Riley. (November 23, 2001). "Whales of winter show in Juneau". [[Juneau Empire]].
Willson, Mary. (November 5, 2006). "It's not hard to find Juneau's kayak 'trails'". [[Juneau Empire]].
Woodford, Riley. (July 24, 2005). "Southeast moose hunters will see changes this year". [[Juneau Empire]].
Dye, Kathy. (January 7, 2001). "Live cameras make stars of Southeast's Steller sea lions". [[Juneau Empire]].

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