person
Ivan Fyodorovich Krusenstern
Krusenstern
also: Adam Johann von Krusenstern
Russian navigator who explored Sakhalin's shores in 1805 but, working from La Pérouse's chart, repeated the earlier error of concluding the island was a peninsula.
Reading notes
- Sakhalin Island §21 Krusenstern
Russian navigator who explored Sakhalin's shores in 1805 but, working from La Pérouse's chart, repeated the earlier error of taking the island for a peninsula.