Adam Johann von Krusenstern
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Adam Johann von Krusenstern was a Russian admiral and explorer of Swedish and Baltic German descent, who led the first Russian circumnavigation of the Earth in 1803–1806.
Portrait, after 1838
Krusenstern family coat of arms
Adam Johann von Krusenstern in Avacha Bay by Friedrich Georg Weitsch, c. 1806. The Koryaksky volcano is in the background, on the Kamchatka Peninsula in far-east Russia. National Museum in Warsaw
Little Diomede Island
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Little Diomede Island, formerly known as Krusenstern Island, after Adam Johann von Krusenstern,, is an inhabited island of Alaska. It is the smaller of the two Diomede Islands located in the Bering St
Adam Johann von Krusenstern
…is named after him. Mount Kruzenshtern, the highest mountain in Novaya Zemlya, as well as crater Krusenstern on the Moon are named after him. There is Krusenstern Island in the Bering Strait, as well as a small group of islands in the Kara Sea, southwest of the Nordenskiöld Archipelago, called Krusenstern Islands. Cape…
The native Iñupiat village of Diomede/Iŋaliq on Little Diomede Island
The Bering Strait area: Little Diomede Island can be clearly seen in the middle of the strait, to the right of Big Diomede.
Diomede (Inalik) village on the west coast of Little Diomede Island, Alaska