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 victoriously led the frigate Astrée in the naval battle of Louisbourg, 21 July 1781, by Auguste-Louis de Rossel de Cercy.
Louis XVI, seated at right, giving Lapérouse his instructions on 29 June 1785, by Nicolas-André Monsiau (1817). (Château de Versailles)
Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, lithograph c.1835, by Antoine Maurin, State Library of New South Wales
Lituya Bay in Alaska, July 1786
Expédition La Pérouse. Trajet des navires la Boussole et l'Astrolabe, carte océan Pacifique
The chart of Lapérouse's discoveries in the Sea of Japan and Sea of Okhotsk
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.
Bastille Day, 2013 is commemorated at the Laperouse Monument, in La Perouse, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, by the Friends of the Laperouse Museum, in 19th-century uniforms.
References
- ↑ Marchant, Lesley R. (1967). "La Pérouse, Jean-François de Galaup (1741–1788)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. Retrieved on 27 August 2011.