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; 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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