Boussole Rock

Boussole Rock (53˚58'00" 133˚09'00" NE of Frederick I, NW side of Graham I, QCI). The 41-m, 500-tonne frigate Boussole (formerly the storeship Portefaix) was commanded by Capt Jean-François de Galaup, Comte de Lapérouse, who was in charge of a scientific expedition sent by France in 1785 to circumnavigate the globe and find the NW Passage. Lapérouse and his fellow capt, Paul-Antoine-Marie Fleuriot de Langle, commanding the Astrolabe, sailed along the BC coast in 1786 and named many...

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