Kerouard Islands

Kerouard Islands (51˚55'00" 131˚00'00" Off the S tip of Kunghit I, QCI). Named by Jean-François de Galaup, Comte de Lapérouse, after Georgette de Kerouartz, a French aristocrat and wife of Paul-Antoine-Marie Fleuriot de Langle. Lapérouse, aboard the Boussole, and de Langle, on the Astrolabe, were sent by France in 1785 to circumnavigate the globe and search for the NW Passage. They sailed along the BC coast the following year. De Langle was later murdered in Samoa, and both vessels were...

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