Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse
Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse (1741—1788) was a French navigator who explored the Pacific Ocean.[1] He died when his ship was wrecked in the New Hebrides during 1788. He met the English when they arrived in Australia with the First Fleet in January 1788. After a short stay in Botany Bay, he sailed away into the Pacific.
Jean-François De Galaup, Comte De Lapérouse Media
Lapérouse commanded the frigate Astrée in the action of 21 July 1781.
Louis XVI, seated at right, giving Lapérouse his instructions on 29 June 1785. Louis XVI Giving His Instructions to La Pérouse by Nicolas-André Monsiau (1817). (Château de Versailles)
Expédition La Pérouse. Trajet des navires la Boussole et l'Astrolabe, carte océan Pacifique
Lapérouse in Alaska, July 1786, by Louis-Philippe Crépin
The final letter by Lapérouse received in France. The document was carried to Europe from New South Wales in 1788 by the British ship Alexander, which had been part of the First Fleet carrying convicts to Australia.
Posthumous bust of Lapérouse in 1828, by François Rude
Memorial to Lapérouse on Vanikoro in the Solomon Islands
Memorial to Lapérouse in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Kamchatka
Recovered ceramics on display at the Maritime Museum of New Caledonia in Nouméa, New Caledonia
References
- ↑ Marchant, Lesley R. (1967). "La Pérouse, Jean-François de Galaup (1741–1788)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. Retrieved 27 August 2011.
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