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Gone Missing

The last sighting of the La Perouse expedition - 1788

L'Astrolabe and La Boussole under the command of Jean Francois La Perouse vanished somewhere off the coast of Australia in early 1788. In his journal, artist Raymond Massey writes:

"The famous French exploring expedition disappeared from history as if they sailed into a fog and never came out. For almost forty years, the world pondered the mystery of France's lost expedition without the faintest glimmer of its fate."

Artifacts of the shipwrecked vessels were finally recovered on remote Vanikoro Island, Salomon Islands, on June 7, 1827, where the expedition was torn to bits by a violent hurricane and driven upon the reef.

14 x 18 in. giclée on canvas - 100 edition (10 AP hand enhanced)