Above is a map with all of the places located that La Perouse has explored in his life.
La Perouse was sent to explore both the North and South Pacific, including coasts of the Far East and of Australia by King Louis XVI, to complete the Pacific discoveries of Captain Cook.
He was expected to complete and correct maps of the area, establish trade contacts, open new marine roots and find new scientific collections.
Their objectives were geographic, scientific, ethnological, economic (eg. opportunities for trading) and political (eg. allies).
He was given every requirement he would need, including the ships Boussole and Astrolabe, both weighing 500 tons.
On them held scientists, astronomers, mathematicians, geologists, botanists, physicists, naturalists and illustrators, others where friends, family and people that could help out on deck and off deck. They were all equipped with scientific tools, timepieces and navigational equipment, along with anything else they needed and any basic supplies.
He had a crew with the numbers of 114 men. Some of them were:
He set sail in 1785, hoping to explore the south and north of the Pacific, he was completing the maps that Captain Cook had begun, he also discovered new routes along the way.
His ships had arrived off the coast of Australia on the 24th of January in the year 1788, they were unable to enter Botany Bay though until the 26th of January.
The first fleet settlers tried to escape with them but unsuccessfully didn't.
After helping the needy settlers in Australia with supplies (who were in their new colony) they had enough supplies to last them three years and they would be going back to France in 15 months.
After leaving Botany Bay in mid March the captain of the boat Astrolabe delivered messages from La Perouse to be forwarded to the French ambassador in London.
Both ships never arrived back in Paris. The wreckage of both of the ships were found a couple of years later near the Solomon Islands.
Paris never knew where they went or what happened to them though, but eventually their journals and dispatches reached London in June 1789.
Some places they visited/went to:
He was expected to complete and correct maps of the area, establish trade contacts, open new marine roots and find new scientific collections.
Their objectives were geographic, scientific, ethnological, economic (eg. opportunities for trading) and political (eg. allies).
He was given every requirement he would need, including the ships Boussole and Astrolabe, both weighing 500 tons.
On them held scientists, astronomers, mathematicians, geologists, botanists, physicists, naturalists and illustrators, others where friends, family and people that could help out on deck and off deck. They were all equipped with scientific tools, timepieces and navigational equipment, along with anything else they needed and any basic supplies.
He had a crew with the numbers of 114 men. Some of them were:
- ten scientists
- an astronomer
- a mathematician
- a geologist
- a botanist
- a physicist
- three naturalists
- three illustrators
He set sail in 1785, hoping to explore the south and north of the Pacific, he was completing the maps that Captain Cook had begun, he also discovered new routes along the way.
His ships had arrived off the coast of Australia on the 24th of January in the year 1788, they were unable to enter Botany Bay though until the 26th of January.
The first fleet settlers tried to escape with them but unsuccessfully didn't.
After helping the needy settlers in Australia with supplies (who were in their new colony) they had enough supplies to last them three years and they would be going back to France in 15 months.
After leaving Botany Bay in mid March the captain of the boat Astrolabe delivered messages from La Perouse to be forwarded to the French ambassador in London.
Both ships never arrived back in Paris. The wreckage of both of the ships were found a couple of years later near the Solomon Islands.
Paris never knew where they went or what happened to them though, but eventually their journals and dispatches reached London in June 1789.
Some places they visited/went to:
- Spain
- Chile
- Cape Horn
- Easter Island
- Sandwich Islands
- Hawaiian Islands
- Maui (he was actually the first European to set foot there)
- Alaska
- California
- San Francisco
- Monterey Bay
- Macau
- Manila
- Northeast Asia
- Korea
- Russia
- Japan
- Navigator Islands
- Tonga
- Australia (Botany Bay)