• La Perouse or Lapérouse may refer to: La Pérouse, French exonym for Perugia in Italy La Perouse, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney La Perouse (New Zealand)...
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    statue of La Perouse at the northern end of La Perouse Street at the Red Hill shopping centre. La Pérouse (crater), on the Moon Rue La Pérouse (in French)...
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    La Pérouse Strait (Russian: пролив Лаперуза), or Sōya Strait (Japanese: 宗谷海峡), is a strait dividing the southern part of the Russian island of Sakhalin...
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    on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to La Pérouse. The small but bright La Pérouse A is surrounded by a ray system (higher albedo ejecta)...
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    La Perouse is a suburb in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The suburb of La Perouse is located about 14 kilometres...
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    Captain Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse. But has been referred to the French explorer. In 1786, La Pérouse surveyed and mapped the prominent embayment...
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    atoll, as well as finding the rock that would later be named after La Pérouse. La Pérouse named the shoals Basse des Frégates Françaises, the "Shoal of the...
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    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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    trade, 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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    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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  • The La Perouse United are an Australian rugby league football team based in La Perouse, New South Wales a suburb of south-central Sydney they play in the...
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    Français de San Francisco (LFSF), previously known as the Lycée Français La Pérouse, is a private school in the San Francisco Bay Area. It welcomes students...
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  • in French Perouse (part of Rutesheim), a German municipality of Waldensian descent Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse La Pérouse Strait, a strait...
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    cordial contact between the French and British officers, but Phillip and La Pérouse never met. The French ships remained until 10 March before setting sail...
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    Sakhalin moved to Hokkaido, 43 kilometres (27 mi) to the south across the La Pérouse Strait, when Japanese civilians were displaced from the island in 1949...
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    Tamentfoust (Arabic: تمنتفوست), the classical Rusguniae and colonial La Pérouse, is a site in the Dar El Beïda District of Algiers in Algeria. Tamentfoust...
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    sugar cane, and above all sweet potatoes." In 1786 Jean-François de La Pérouse visited Easter Island and his gardener declared that "three days' work...
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    became known to the Europeans as the "Chinese Tartary". Accordingly, when La Pérouse charted most of the strait between Sakhalin and the mainland "Chinese...
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    12 nmi (5.6 and 22.2 km; 3.5 and 13.8 mi) in the international straits—La Pérouse (or Sōya Strait), Tsugaru Strait, Ōsumi, and Tsushima Strait. Japan has...
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    following 30 years the maritime border between the two empires ran along the La Pérouse Strait (between Hokkaido and Sakhalin) and the Kuril Strait (between Russian...
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    Bazouges-la-Pérouse (French pronunciation: [bazuʒ la peʁuz]; Breton: Bazeleg-ar-Veineg; Gallo: Bazój-la-Pérózz) is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department...
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    botanist Jacques Labillardière in his book, Relation du Voyage à la Recherche de la Pérouse. Labillardière collected specimens at Recherche Bay during the...
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    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 island...
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    between 1847 and 1892. Most entered the sea via Korea Strait and left via La Pérouse Strait, but some entered and exited via Tsugaru Strait. They primarily...
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  • Redfern All Blacks, Kempsey, La Perouse, Walgett, Moree and a combined Mt Druitt / South Coast side. It was won by La Perouse United. The tournament remained...
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    and La Pérouse landed on the Samoan island of Maouna to look for drinking water and fresh food, which they were running out of (Langle and La Pérouse both...
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  • a commune in the department of Sarthe, northwestern France. Bazouges-la-Pérouse, a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern...
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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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    of the time. Morton and Wahoo disappeared in 1943 during a transit of La Pérouse Strait. He was legally declared deceased three years later. Morton was...
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    Galaup, comte de Lapérouse to lead a sailing expedition around the world (La Pérouse and his fleet disappeared after leaving Botany Bay in March 1788. Louis...
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