La Perouse
La Perouse or Lapérouse may refer to:
Places
[edit]- La Pérouse, French exonym for Perugia in Italy
- La Perouse, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney
- La Perouse (New Zealand), a mountain in the Southern Alps of New Zealand
- La Pérouse Strait, a strait between the Russia island of Sakhalin and the Japanese island of Hokkaido
- La Perouse Bay, a bay on Maui, Hawaii
- La Perouse Bay, a bay on Easter Island (Rapa Nui) in Chile
- La Pérouse, old name of city of Tamentfoust, Algiers
- Lycée Français de San Francisco, previously Lycée Français La Pérouse, a total immersion French language school based in San Francisco, California
People
[edit]- Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, a French naval officer and explorer
Ships
[edit]Named for the comte de Lapérouse:
- French navy
- The Lapérouse class are Hydrographic survey ships.
- Lapérouse (A791) is a current serving ship of the Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service, launched at Brest in 1988
- Lapérouse, a cruiser launched at Brest in 1877
- CMA CGM Lapérouse, a cargo ship
Other
[edit]- Lapérouse (restaurant), restaurant in Paris