5-584: [REDACTED] Look up boussole in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Boussole (French "compass") may refer to: La Boussole, French ship Boussole (1782) Boussole Rock, Jukdo (island) Boussole Strait in the Kuril Islands Boussole ( fr ), novel by Mathias Énard 2015 Prix Goncourt La Boussole ( fr ), 1990s French rap group including Médine (rapper) Topics referred to by
10-611: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages French ship Boussole (1782) Boussole was a former flûte of the French Navy , famous for its exploration of the Pacific under Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse . She was built in 1781–82 at Bayonne as the flûte Portfaix for the French Navy. In May 1785 she and her sister ship Astrolabe (previously
15-685: The Autruche ) were renamed, rerated as frigates, and fitted for round-the-world scientific exploration. It departed Brest on 1 August 1785 under Lapérouse, accompanied by the Astrolabe under Paul Antoine Fleuriot de Langle . The expedition vanished mysteriously in 1788 after leaving Botany Bay on 10 March 1788. Captain Peter Dillon in Research solved the fate of the expedition when he found remnants of both vessels at Vanikoro Island in
20-629: The Solomon Islands . Local inhabitants reported that a storm had wrecked both ships. Survivors from one ship had been massacred while survivors from the other ship had constructed their own small boat and sailed off the island, never to be heard from again. The fate of Lapérouse and his two ships at Vanikoro is the subject of a chapter in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas by Jules Verne . Objects recovered from
25-413: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Boussole . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Boussole&oldid=1168425717 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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