Krusenstern Island

Krusenstern Island (and similar names) is a toponym 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; formerly known as Krusenstern Island) in the Diomede Islands^[2]
Tikehau in the Tuamotus
"Krusenstern Reef" was a phantom reef at 22°15′N 175°37′W / 22.250°N 175.617°W / 22.250; -175.617; it was deleted from maps after 1923^[1]
"Krusenstern Islands" or "Krusenstern Reef" also was applied to islands in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands^[1]
"Krusenstern Islands", a small group of islands in the Middendorff Bay

Footnotes

1 2 3 Murphy (1951): pp. 17–18
↑ Marcus Baker (1902). Geographic Dictionary of Alaska. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 252, 268.

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

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[murphy1951-1] 1 2 3 Murphy (1951): pp. 17–18

[2] Marcus Baker (1902). Geographic Dictionary of Alaska. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 252, 268.