Looking for Laperouse
On March 15th, 1788, after two and a half years of navigation through many oceans, the expedition led by Jean-François Galaup, count of Lapérouse ended in a violent storm below the cliffs of the island of Vanikoro in the Solomon archipelago. In April, 2005, the biggest expedition ever organized to look for Lapérouse since Dumont Durville in 1827, landed on the island of Vanikoro. In the same spirit as the century of enlightenment, Vanikoro 2005 was a multidisciplinary expedition of scientists embarked aboard Jacques Cartier, a French naval vessel. 
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- Autor ©Teddy Seguin / Lirbrearbitre / Lightmediation
- Date Thu, 28 Sep 2006 23:42:30 +0200
