Kudobin Islands | |
Native Name: | Kudobin Islands Archipelago |
Nickname: | --> |
Pushpin Map: | USA Alaska |
Coordinates: | 56.0225°N -160.9222°W |
Location: | Bering Sea |
Length Km: | 8 |
Elevation M: | 13 |
Country: | United States |
Country Admin Divisions Title: | State |
Country Admin Divisions: | Alaska |
Country Admin Divisions Title 1: | Borough |
Country Admin Divisions 1: | Aleutians East |
Utc Offset: | -9 |
Utc Offset Dst: | -8 |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
Postal Code: | 99... |
Area Code Type: | Area code |
Area Code: | 907 |
Footnotes: | [1] |
The Kudobin Islands are a group of small islands in the Bering Sea, near the coast of Alaska, 13miles west of Port Moller, Bristol Bay Low. The group includes a cluster of other small coastal islands, the Walrus and Kritskoi Islands, forming a geographical whole.[1]
The Kudobin Islands are close to Nelson Lagoon. The largest island is about long and wide. The islands are flat, the highest point on theme being .
These coastal islands were surveyed by Andrew Khudobin (IRN, one of Captain Fyodor Petrovich Litke's naval officers in 1828. Khudobin named the group French: 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, USC&GS.[1]