High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! La Perouse was named after the French navigator Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de La Perouse 1741-88, who landed on the northern shore of Botany Bay west of Bare Island in January 1788. La Perouse's two ships sailed to New South Wales after some of his men had been attacked and killed in the Navigator Islands Samoa. La Perouse arrived off Botany Bay on 24 January just six days after Captain Arthur Phillip 1738-1814 had anchored just east of Bare Island, in H.M. Armed Tender Supply. On 26 January 1788, as Arthur Phillip was moving the First Fleet around to Port Jackson after finding Botany Bay unsuitable for a Settlement, La Perouse was sailing into Botany Bay, anchoring there just eight days after the British had. The British received La Perouse courteously, and offered him any assistance he might need. The French were far better provisioned than the English were, and extended the same courtesy; but neither offer was accepted. La Perouse sent his journals and letters to Europe with a British ship, the Sirius. A scientist on the expedition, Father Receveur, died in February and was buried at what is now known as La Perouse.

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