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Person1741 – 1788
Jean-François de La Pérouse
French naval officer and explorer who set out to explore the Pacific for Louis XVI in 1785 and vanished with his expedition at Vanikoro in 1788
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The French expedition of La Pérouse, exploring the Pacific, vanished after leaving Botany Bay in Australia in 1788; forty years later the wrecks of both ships were found at Vanikoro.
Themes this person appears in
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas1702 – 1958
Jules Verne’s novel of Captain Nemo’s submarine Nautilus circling the world beneath the sea — the treasure ships of Vigo Bay, La Pérouse’s wrecks, the giant squid and the Atlantic cable behind it, and the people who really reached the South Pole and passed under the North Pole after the novel went there first