Krusenstern or Kruzenshtern may refer to: *

Adam Johann von Krusenstern Adam Johann von Krusenstern (; 10 October 177012 August 1846) was a Russian admiral and explorer of Swedish and Baltic German descent, who led the first Russian circumnavigation of the Earth in 1803–1806. Life Krusenstern was born i ...

(1770–1846), Baltic German admiral and explorer who circumnavigated the world in Russian service

Places named after von Krusenstern

* Krusenstern (crater), on the Moon * Krusenstern Island (disambiguation) ** A small group of islands in the

Middendorff Bay The Middendorff Bay, () 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 This bay is limited on its eastern side ...

Little Diomede Island Little Diomede Island or Yesterday Island (, formerly known as Krusenstern Island, ) is an inhabited island of Alaska. It is the smaller of the two Diomede Islands located in the Bering Strait between the Alaskan mainland and Siberia. The islan ...

, in Alaska **

Ailuk Atoll Ailuk Atoll ( Marshallese: , ) is an inhabited coral atoll of 57 islets in the Pacific Ocean, and forms a legislative district of the Ratak Chain of the Marshall Islands. Geography It is located approximately north from Wotje and south of ...

, in the Marshall Islands **

Tikehau Tikehau (meaning ''Peaceful Landing'' in TuamotuanOfficial Tikehau Tourism Site< ...

-Atoll, of Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia ** Krusenstern Island, Krusenstern Reef, or Krusenstern Rock, a phantom reef south of the

Northwestern Hawaiian Islands The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands also known as the Leeward Hawaiian Islands, are a series of islands and atolls located northwest of Kauai and Niihau, Niihau in the Hawaiian Islands, Hawaiian island chain. Politically, these islands are part of ...

Krusenstern Strait Krusenstern Strait () 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) wide. A strong northwest tidal current creat ...

, Kuril Islands, Russia *

Cape Krusenstern Cape Krusenstern ( Iñupiaq: ''Nuvua'' 'its point') 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 c ...

, in Alaska **

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 fi ...

in Alaska *

Mount Krusenstern Mount Kruzenshtern () 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 was first put on the map in the 1820s by Arct ...

, Novaya Zemlya, Russia

Other uses

* ''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 prese ...

in Russia * Cape Krusenstern, at the west end of

Coronation Gulf Coronation Gulf lies between Victoria Island (Canada), 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 De ...

, Canada

Places named after von Krusenstern

Other uses

See also