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 22°15′N 175°37′W / 22.25°N 175.617°W / 22.25; -175.617; it was deleted from maps after 1923
- "Krusenstern Islands" or "Krusenstern Reef" also was applied to islands in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
Famous quotes containing the word island:
“For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)