Krusenstern or Kruzenshtern may refer to:
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Adam Johann von Krusenstern
Adam Johann von Krusenstern (also Krusenstjerna in Swedish; russian: Ива́н Фёдорович Крузенште́рн, tr. ; 10 October 177012 August 1846) was a Russian admiral and explorer, who led the first Russian circumnavigation o ...
(1770–1846), Baltic German admiral and explorer who circumnavigated the world in Russian service
Places named after von Krusenstern
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Krusenstern (crater)
Krusenstern is a lunar impact crater that lies amidst the battered terrain in the southern part of the Moon's near side. Nearly attached to the east-southeast rim is the crater Apianus. Less than one crater diameter to the southwest is the promine ...
, on the moon
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Krusenstern Island (disambiguation) Krusenstern Island (and similar names) is a toponym honoring the Baltic German explorer Adam Johann von Krusenstern (1770–1846). It may refer to a number of places in the Pacific Ocean:
* Little Diomede Island (Inupiaq: ''Iŋaliq''), Alaska, Unit ...
** A small group of islands in the
Middendorff Bay
The Middendorff Bay, (russian: Залив Миддендорфа) is a deeply indented bay in the shores of the Taymyr Peninsula. It is located southwest of the Nordenskiöld Archipelago in the Kara Sea and it is open towards the west.
Geography ...
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Little Diomede Island
Little Diomede Island or “Yesterday Isle” ( ik, Iŋaliq, formerly known as Krusenstern Island, , in Alaska
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Ailuk Atoll
Ailuk Atoll ( Marshallese: , ) is a coral atoll of 57 islets in the Pacific Ocean, and forms a legislative district of the Ratak Chain of the Marshall Islands. It is located approximately north from Wotje. Its total land area is only , but it en ...
, in the Marshall Islands
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Tikehau
Tikehau (meaning ''Peaceful Landing'' in Tuamotuan[Official Tikehau Tourism Site< ...](_blank)
-Atoll, of Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia
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Krusenstern Strait Krusenstern Strait (russian: Пролив Крузенштерна) is a strait that separates the islands of Raikoke and Shiashkotan in the Kuril Islands, Russia. It is separated into two passages by the Lovushki Rocks and is 61.2 km (about 38 mi) ...
, Kuril Islands, Russia
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Cape Krusenstern
Cape Krusenstern is a cape on the northwestern coast of the U.S. state of Alaska, located near the village of Kivalina at .
It is bounded by Kotzebue Sound to the south and the Chukchi Sea to the west, and consists of a series of beach ridges ...
, in Alaska
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Cape Krusenstern National Monument
Cape Krusenstern National Monument and the colocated Cape Krusenstern Archeological District is a U.S. National Monument and a National Historic Landmark centered on Cape Krusenstern in northwestern Alaska. The national monument was one of fifte ...
in Alaska
* "Krusenstern Reef," "Krusenstern Rock," or "Krusenstern Island," a phantom reef south of the
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands or Leeward Hawaiian Islands are a series of islands and atolls in the Hawaiian island chain located northwest (in some cases, far to the northwest) of the islands of Kauai and Niihau. Politically, they are all p ...
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Mount Krusenstern
Mount Kruzenshtern (russian: Гора Крузенштерна) is a peak in Severny Island, Novaya Zemlya, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. It rises inland near the northwestern shore and is the highest point of Arkhangelsk Oblast.
The mountain ...
, Novaya Zemlya, Russia
Other uses
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''Kruzenshtern'' (ship) (until 1946 German ''Padua''), a Russian tall ship training vessel
* Krusenstern field, a
natural gas field
A petroleum reservoir or oil and gas reservoir is a subsurface accumulation of hydrocarbons contained in porous or fractured rock formations.
Such reservoirs form when kerogen (ancient plant matter) is created in surrounding rock by the presence ...
in Russia
* Cape Krusenstern, at the west end of
Coronation Gulf
Coronation Gulf lies between Victoria Island and mainland Nunavut in Canada. To the northwest it connects with Dolphin and Union Strait and thence the Beaufort Sea and Arctic Ocean; to the northeast it connects with Dease Strait and thence Queen M ...
, Canada
See also
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