Mount de la Touche

Mount de la Touche (52˚42'07" 132˚02'10" SE of entrance to Tasu Sd, W side of Moresby I, QCI). This conspicuous 1,123-m peak, visible from all points of approach at sea, was named in 1786 by Jean-François de Galaup, Comte de Lapérouse, while sailing S along the W coast of the QCI on his never-finished circumnavigation of the globe. He also gave the name Baie de la Touche to the present Englefield Bay. It is not known precisely who de la Touche was. He may have been Lapérouse’s 1st lt...

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