person
Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse
La Pérouse
also: Lapérouse
French navigator whose 1787 voyage was among the first European surveys of the strait between Sakhalin and the mainland; his mistaken chart misled later explorers, including Krusenstern, into believing Sakhalin a peninsula.
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- Sakhalin Island §6 La Pérouse
French navigator whose 1787 chart of the strait between Sakhalin and the mainland, though mistaken, shaped decades of later European exploration of the region.