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 IslandsMurphy (1951): pp.17-18
 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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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. PDF fulltext