Krusenstern Island

Krusenstern Island

Krusenstern Island (and similar names) is a toponym honoring the Russian 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 IslandsMurphy (1951): pp.17-18]
* Little Diomede ("Ignaluk") in the Diomede Islands
* Tikehau in the Tuamotus
* "Krusenstern Reef" was a phantom reef at coord|22|15|N|175|37|W|; 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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References

* (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. [http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/3910/1/N1512.pdf PDF fulltext]


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