La Perouse or Lapérouse may refer to:
Places
*La Pérouse, French exonym for
Perugia
Perugia (, , ; lat, Perusia) is the capital city of Umbria in central Italy, crossed by the River Tiber, and of the province of Perugia.
The city is located about north of Rome and southeast of Florence. It covers a high hilltop and part o ...
in Italy
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La Perouse, New South Wales
La Perouse is a suburb in south-eastern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The suburb of La Perouse is located about southeast of the Sydney central business district, in the City of Randwick.
The La Perouse peninsula is th ...
, a suburb of Sydney
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La Perouse (New Zealand)
La Perouse, originally called Mount Stokes, is a mountain in New Zealand's Southern Alps, rising to a height of .
Geography
La Perouse is located in the Southern Alps of the South Island, four kilometres to the southwest Aoraki / Mount Cook. Un ...
, a mountain in the Southern Alps of New Zealand
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La Pérouse Strait
La Pérouse Strait (russian: пролив Лаперуза), or Sōya Strait, is a strait dividing the southern part of the Russian island of Sakhalin from the northern part of the Japanese island of Hokkaidō, and connecting the Sea of Japan on t ...
, a strait between the Russia island of Sakhalin and the Japanese island of Hokkaido
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La Perouse Bay
Keoneōio Bay is located south of the town of Wailea, Hawaii at the end of Mākena Alanui Road (State Highway 31) at . The bay's Hawaiian name is Keoneōio.
It was not later named for the French explorer Captain Jean-François de Galaup, comte de L ...
, a bay on Maui, Hawaii
*La Perouse Bay, a bay on
Easter Island
Easter Island ( rap, Rapa Nui; es, Isla de Pascua) is an island and special territory of Chile in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania. The island is most famous for its nearl ...
(Rapa Nui) in Chile
*La Pérouse, old name of city of
Tamentfoust
Tamentfoust ( ar, تمنتفوست), the classical Rusguniae and colonial , is a site in the Dar El Beïda District of Algiers in Algeria.
Geography
Tamentfoust lies on Cape Matifou, which forms the northeast side of the Bay of Algiers.
Names ...
, Algiers
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Lycée Français de San Francisco
The ''Lycée Français de San Francisco'' (LFSF), previously known as the ''Lycée Français La Pérouse'', is a private school in the San Francisco Bay Area. It welcomes students from preschool through middle, and High School grades. It has a pri ...
, previously Lycée Français La Pérouse, a total immersion French language school based in San Francisco, California
People
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Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse
Jean François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (; variant spelling: ''La Pérouse''; 23 August 17411788?), often called simply Lapérouse, was a French naval officer and explorer. Having enlisted at the age of 15, he had a successful naval caree ...
, a French naval officer and explorer
Ships
Named for the comte de Lapérouse:
* French navy
**The
''Lapérouse'' class are
Hydrographic survey ships.
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''Lapérouse'' (A791) is a current serving ship of the Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service, launched at Brest in 1988
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''Lapérouse'', a cruiser launched at Brest in 1877
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CMA CGM ''Lapérouse'', a cargo ship
Other
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Lapérouse (restaurant), restaurant in Paris
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