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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
Little Diomede
(
Ignaluk
) in the
Diomede Islands
Tikehau
in the
Tuamotus
"Krusenstern Reef" was a
phantom reef
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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