Krusenstern Island (and similar names) is a toponym honoring the Baltic German explorer
Adam Johann von KrusensternAdam Johann Ritter von Krusenstern was an Imperial Russian, Baltic German admiral and explorer, who led the first Russian circumnavigation of the Earth...
(1770 – 1846). It was and sometimes still is used for a number of places in the
Pacific OceanThe Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. Its name is derived from the Latin name Tepre Pacificum, "peaceful sea", bestowed upon it by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. It extends from the Arctic in the north to Antarctica in the south, bounded by Asia and...
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Krusenstern Island (and similar names) is a toponym honoring the Baltic German explorer
Adam Johann von KrusensternAdam Johann Ritter von Krusenstern was an Imperial Russian, Baltic German admiral and explorer, who led the first Russian circumnavigation of the Earth...
(1770 – 1846). It was and sometimes still is used for a number of places in the
Pacific OceanThe Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. Its name is derived from the Latin name Tepre Pacificum, "peaceful sea", bestowed upon it by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. It extends from the Arctic in the north to Antarctica in the south, bounded by Asia and...
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- Ailuk in the Marshall Islands
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- Little Diomede (Ignaluk) in the Diomede Islands
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- Tikehau
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- "Krusenstern Reef" was a phantom reef
Phantom islands are islands that were believed to exist, and appeared on maps for a period of time during recorded history, but were later removed after they proved nonexistent...
at ; it was deleted from maps after 1923
- "Krusenstern Islands" or "Krusenstern Reef" also was applied to islands in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
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