Located to the SW of Franklin Island off
Lafayette Bay of the
Washington Land coast, Crozier Island is the southernmost island of the Kennedy Channel group, the other ones being
Franklin Island and
Hans Island. The former is also part of Greenland, whilst the latter's ownership is shared between Greenland and
Canada. The cliffs at its southwest side rise to a height of and the island is reported to be easily identified. Crozier Island is named after the Irish-born,
British naval officer
Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier, second-in-command (and commander after Franklin's death) of
John Franklin's ill-fated Naval
Northwest Passage Expedition, 1845–1848, by
Elisha Kent Kane between 1854 and 1855 during his
second Grinnell Expedition, after it was sighted by
Hans Hendrik and the American
William Morton in June 1854. == See also ==