La Pérouse Bank

La Pérouse Bank (48˚45'00" 125˚55'00" SW of Barkley Sd, W of Vancouver I), La Pérouse Reef (54˚01'00" 133˚10'00" Off White Point, NW side of Graham I, QCI), Mount La Pérouse (53˚13'39" 132˚30'37" E of Cartwright Sd, SW Graham I). Jean-François de Galaup, Comte de Lapérouse (1741–1788), was a distinguished French naval officer chosen in 1785 to lead a scientific expedition intended to circumnavigate the globe and search for the NW Passage. He had joined the navy in 1756 and...

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