La Perouse

La Perouse may refer to

  • Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, a French naval officer and explorer,

and the following places which were named after him:

  • La Perouse, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney
  • La Perouse Strait, a strait between the Russia island of Sakhalin and the Japanese island of Hokkaido
  • La Perouse Bay, a bay on Maui, Hawaii
  • La Pérouse, Algiers, old name of city of Tamentfoust
  • Lycée Français La Pérouse, a total immersion French language school based in San Francisco, California

and the following ships which were named after him:

  • The Lapérouse class are Hydrographic survey ships of the French Navy.
  • Lapérouse A791 is a current serving ship of the Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the French Navy, launched at Brest in 1988
  • Lapérouse, launched at Brest in 1877