Krusenstern Island

Krusenstern Island (and similar names) is a place name honoring the Baltic German explorer Adam Johann von Krusenstern (1770 – 1846). It was and sometimes still is used for a number of places in the Pacific Ocean:

  • Ailuk in the Marshall Islands[1]
  • Little Diomede (Ignaluk) in the Diomede Islands
  • Tikehau in the Tuamotus
  • "Krusenstern Reef" was a phantom reef at 22°15′N 175°37′W; it was deleted from maps after 1923[1]
  • "Krusenstern Islands" or "Krusenstern Reef" also was applied to islands in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands[1]

Footnotes
  1. Murphy (1951): pp.17-18

References
  • Murphy, Robert Cushman (1951): Birds collected during the Whitney South Sea Expedition 59: The populations of the Wedge-tailed Shearwater (Puffinus pacificus). American Museum Novitates 1512: 1-21. PDF fulltext Archived 2007-06-11 at the Wayback Machine
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