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Bare Island - La Perouse, Sydney Australia

Bare Island - La Perouse, Sydney Australia

La Perouse is a suburb in south-eastern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

The La Perouse peninsula is the northern headland of Bo...
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La Perouse is a suburb in south-eastern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

The La Perouse peninsula is the northern headland of Botany Bay. It is notable for its old military outpost at Bare Island and the Botany Bay National Park. Congwong Bay Beach, Little Congwong Beach, and the beach at Frenchmans Bay provide protected swimming areas in Botany Bay.

La Perouse was named after the French navigator Jean-FranÃ§ois de Galaup, comte de LapÃ©rouse (1741Â–88), who landed on the northern shore of Botany Bay west of Bare Island on 26 January 1788. Captain Arthur Phillip and the first fleet of convicts had arrived in Botany Bay a few days earlier. Louis XVI of France had commissioned LapÃ©rouse to explore the Pacific. In April 1770 James Cook's expedition had sailed onto the east coast of Australia whilst exploring the south Pacific searching for Terra Australis or Â‘Land of the SouthÂ’. Upon King Louis XVI's orders, LapÃ©rouse departed Brest, France, in command of Astrolabe and Boussole on 1 August 1785 on a scientific voyage of the Pacific inspired by the voyages of Cook. La Perouse in Sydney's south is named after the leader of this French expedition.
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