JEAN FRANÇOIS DE GALAUP, COUNT OF THE LA PÉROUSE
(23 August 1741 – 1788 (?))
Jean François de Galaup was born at Albi, in France, and was a French Navy officer and explorer whose expedition vanished in Oceania and conducted wide-ranging explorations in the Pacific Ocean.
Commanding the ship La Boussole, which was accompanied by the Astrolabe, La Pérouse sailed from France on Aug. 1, 1785. After rounding Cape Horn, he made a stop in the South Pacific at Easter Island, in April 9, 1786.
Investigating tropical Pacific waters, he visited the Sandwich Islands, now Hawaii and, with the object of locating the Northwest Passage from the Pacific, he made his way to North America. La Pérouse reached the southern shore of Alaska, near Mount Saint Elias, in June 1786 and explored the coast southward beyond San Francisco to Monterey. Then he crossed the Pacific and reached the South China coast at Macau on Jan. 3, 1787.
Investigating tropical Pacific waters, he visited the Sandwich Islands, now Hawaii and, with the object of locating the Northwest Passage from the Pacific, he made his way to North America. La Pérouse reached the southern shore of Alaska, near Mount Saint Elias, in June 1786 and explored the coast southward beyond San Francisco to Monterey. Then he crossed the Pacific and reached the South China coast at Macau on Jan. 3, 1787.
On April 9 he began to explore the Asian coast. He sailed through the Sea of Japan up to the Tatar Strait, which separates the mainland from the island of Sakhalin, and also visited the strait, named for him, that separates Sakhalin from Hokkaido, Japan.
At Petropavlovsk on the Siberian peninsula of Kamchatka, he dispatched his expedition journal and maps overland to France. The ships then arrive to the Navigators' (now Samoa) Islands, where the commander of the Astrolabe and 11 of his men were murdered. La Pérouse went to the Friendly (now Tonga) and Norfolk islands on his way to Botany Bay in eastern Australia, from which he departed on March 10, 1788.
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