ALASKA NORTH AMERICA RUSSIA KOREA JAPAN 1797 LA PÉROUSE SCARCE LARGE ANTIQUE MAP

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ALASKA NORTH AMERICA RUSSIA KOREA JAPAN 1797 LA PÉROUSE SCARCE LARGE ANTIQUE MAP:
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LASKA NORTH AMERICA RUSSIA KOREA JAPAN 1797 LA PÉROUSE SCARCE LARGE ANTIQUE MAP LASKA NORTH AMERICA RUSSIA KOREA JAPAN 1797 LA PÉROUSE SCARCE LARGE ANTIQUE MAP

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Carte des Côtes de l\'Amerique et de l\'Asie, depuis la Californie jusqu\'à Macao d\'après les Découvertes faites en 1786 et 1787 par le Frégates Françaises la Boußolle et L\'Astrolabe.

Date: 1797( undated)

Easter Island (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 the west coast of North America. He reached the southern shore of Alaska, near Mount St. Elias, in June 1786 and explored the coast southward beyond San Francisco Bay to Monterey Bay. He then crossed the Pacific and reached the South China coast at Macau on January 3, 1787. Leaving Manila (Philippines) on April 9, he began to explore the Pacific coast of Asia. He sailed through the Sea of Japan (East Sea) up to the Tatar Strait, which separates the mainland from the island of Sakhalin, and also visited the strait, subsequently named for him, that separates Sakhalin from the island of Hokkaido, Japan. At Petropavlovsk on the Siberian peninsula of Kamchatka, he dispatched his expedition journal and maps overland to France. The ships then made for the Navigators (now Samoa) Islands, where the commander of the Astrolabe and 11 of his men were murdered. La Pérouse then 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.Nothing more was known of him until 1826–27, when the English captain-adventurer Peter Dillon found evidence that La Boussole and the Astrolabe had been near Vanikolo, one of the Santa Cruz Islands (now in Solomon Islands). In 1828 the French explorer Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d’Urville sighted wreckage and learned from islanders that about 30 men from the ships had been massacred onshore, though others who were well armed managed to escape. La Pérouse’s records, Voyage de La Pérouse autour du monde, 4 vol. (1797; A Voyage Round the World, 1801 and subsequent editions), were edited by L.A. Milet-Mureau and published posthumously.

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