The Kudobin Islands are a group of small islands in the Bering Sea

Bering Sea

The Bering Sea is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean. It comprises a deep water basin, which then rises through a narrow slope into the shallower water above the continental shelves....

, near the coast of Alaska

Alaska

Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...

, 13 miles (20.9 km) West of Port Moller; Bristol Bay

Bristol Bay

Bristol Bay is the eastern-most arm of the Bering Sea, at 57° to 59° North 157° to 162° West in Southwest Alaska. Bristol Bay is 400 km long and 290 km, wide at its mouth...

 Low. The group includes a cluster of other small coastal islands, Walrus and Kritskoi Islands

Walrus and Kritskoi Islands

Walrus Island, in the southeastern shore of Bristol Bay in Aleutians East Borough, should not be confused with the Walrus Islands in the Walrus Islands State Game Sanctuary, located close to Hagemeister Island in the Dillingham Census Area in the northern edge of the bay, or with tiny Walrus Island...

, forming a geographical whole.

The Kudobin Islands are located close to Nelson Lagoon. The largest island is about 13.5 km long. km (1 mile) wide. The islands are flat, the highest point on theme being only 4m.

Etymology

These coastal islands were surveyed by Andrew Khudobin (IRN

Imperial Russian Navy

The Imperial Russian Navy refers to the Tsarist fleets prior to the February Revolution.-First Romanovs:Under Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich, construction of the first three-masted ship, actually built within Russia, was completed in 1636. It was built in Balakhna by Danish shipbuilders from Holstein...

, one of Captain Fyodor Petrovich Litke

Fyodor Petrovich Litke

Count Fyodor Petrovich Litke , born Friedrich Benjamin Lütke, was a Russian navigator, geographer, and Arctic explorer. He became a count in 1866, and an admiral in 1855. He was a Corresponding Member , Honorable Member , and President of the Russian Academy of Science in St.Petersburg...

's naval officers in 1828. Khudobin named the group "Ile aux Loups" or "Wolf Island," according to Lutke. Lutke (1836, p. 263) called the group "Khoudobine."
Its present name, "Khudobin Island", was given in 1882 by W. H. Dall

W. H. Dall

William Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...

, USC&GS.

General references

• Captain (Count) Feodor Petrovich Lutke