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