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    Jean François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (French: [ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa də ɡalo kɔ̃t də lapeʁuz]; variant spelling: La Pérouse; 23 August 1741 – 1788?), often...
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    present-day La Perouse, including the La Perouse area. La Perouse was named after the French navigator Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (1741–88)...
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    La Perouse Pinnacle is a steep basalt outcrop at French Frigate Shoals in the Pacific Ocean. Rising approximately 122 ft (37 m) above sea surface, it is...
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    Mystère de La Pérouse (The Mystery of La Pérouse), a recreation of the ill-fated maritime expedition led by Jean-François de La Pérouse. Guests board La Pérouse's...
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    The Special Expedition (French: Expédition Particulière) was an expeditionary force deployed by France to North America to support the Thirteen Colonies...
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    Australia. Labillardière was a member of a voyage in search of the La Pérouse expedition. He published a popular account of his journey and produced the...
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  • Spate, Villalobos's crew included the pilot Juan Gaetan, credited by La Perouse for the discovery of Hawaii. Gaetan's voyage was described in similar...
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    renamed La Perouse in honour of the French explorer Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (also spelt comte de La Pérouse) whose expedition foundered...
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    be named after La Pérouse. La Pérouse named the shoals Basse des Frégates Françaises, the "Shoal of the French Frigates". The expedition went on to discover...
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  • explorer and writer. Dillon discovered in 1826–27 the fate of the La Pérouse expedition. Peter Dillon was born in Martinique, France, the son and namesake...
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    the La Pérouse expedition, who had the respect of Louis XVI. La Pérouse asked the Minister of Marine and the Colonies, Charles Eugène Gabriel de La Croix...
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    but knew nothing of La Pérouse. He then sailed back to New Caledonia, where he anchored at Balade. The vain search for La Pérouse then resumed with Santa...
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    Ocean under Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, looking for the lost expedition of Jean-François de La Pérouse. Kermadec was born on 12 September 1748 in Bohars, near...
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  • Relation du Voyage à la Recherche de la Pérouse is an 1800 book that gives an account of the 1791-1793 d'Entrecasteaux expedition to Australasia. The title...
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  • at 1-39 Bunnerong Road, La Perouse, City of Randwick, New South Wales, Australia. It is also known as Chinese Gardens La Perouse, Phillip Bay, Matraville...
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    same fashion as the voyages of James Cook and Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse. Some of the leading scientists at the time collected an impressive...
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    and the frigates Surveillante under Villeneuve Cillart, Amazone under La Pérouse, and Bellone. Amazone, which constituted the vanguard of the fleet, arrived...
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  • He and his brother Ange died on the La Pérouse expedition, and their father (the wealthy court banker Jean-Joseph de Laborde) erected a blue-turquoise marble...
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    black flint". On 10 April 1786, the French explorer Jean François de Galaup La Pérouse visited and made a detailed map of Easter Island. He described the...
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  • transliteration of the name of the Marquis de Castries, who sponsored the expedition of the French explorer La Pérouse, who was the first European to sight...
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    de Lesseps, was the French chargé d'affaires. This uncle was an old companion of Jean-François de La Pérouse and the only survivor of the expedition in...
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    Antoinette, and was also taken on as the official artist of the La Perouse expedition, on which he disappeared. His skull was thought to have been found...
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    and the frigates Surveillante under Villeneuve Cillart, Amazone under La Pérouse, and Bellone. Amazone, which constituted the vanguard of the fleet, arrived...
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    Indians in Arizona and Southern California. Jean-François de la Pérouse, on his expedition around the world in 1786, describes the ill treatment of natives...
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    Bay expedition under La Pérouse's orders. For Fleuriot de Langle's expertise, knowledge of math and astronomy, and force of character, La Pérouse chose...
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    Relation du Voyage à la Recherche de la Pérouse. Labillardière collected specimens at Recherche Bay during the d'Entrecasteaux expedition in 1792. The d'Entrecasteaux...
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    meteorologist. He joined several scientific expeditions and eventually died on one (the La Perouse expedition). He belonged to the lordly family of Lamanon...
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  • He disappeared in the Pacific whilst a member of the La Pérouse expedition. Joseph Boissieu (de) La Martinière was from the Boissieu-Perrin family, an old...
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  • the Entrecasteaux expedition, which Louis XVI and the Constituent Assembly directed to search for the earlier La Pérouse expedition, as well as conduct...
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  • de Galaup de la Pérouse, 1785-1788. Vol. II. London: Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, no. 179-180) Author: Jean-François de Galaup La Pérouse, comte de;...
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