 He “called it Carondelet Reef”.Most likely this wasn't the first time it was viewed by a Westerner, for on authority of admiral Adam Johann von Krusenstern, a discovery in the year 1824 of a reef in position 5° 38′ S, 172° 54′ W. (of Greenwich) had already been claimed by a captain Kemin (of unknown ship).It may have been seen next by Capt.