title: La Perouse
text: # La Perouse
  
  La Perouse or Lapérouse may refer to:
  
  ## Places
  
  * La Pérouse, French exonym for Perugia in Italy
  * La Perouse, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney
  * La Perouse (New Zealand), a mountain in the Southern Alps of New Zealand
  * La Pérouse Strait, a strait between the Russia island of Sakhalin and the Japanese island of Hokkaido
  * La Perouse Bay, a bay on Maui, Hawaii
  * La Perouse Bay, a bay on Easter Island (Rapa Nui) in Chile
  * La Pérouse, old name of city of Tamentfoust, Algiers
  * Lycée Français de San Francisco, previously Lycée Français La Pérouse, a total immersion French language school based in San Francisco, California
  
  ## People
  
  * Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, a French naval officer and explorer
  
  ## Ships
  
  Named for the comte de Lapérouse:
  
  * French navy
     * The Lapérouse class are Hydrographic survey ships.
     * Lapérouse (A791) is a current serving ship of the Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service, launched at Brest in 1988
     * Lapérouse, a cruiser launched at Brest in 1877
  * CMA CGM Lapérouse, a cargo ship
  
  ## Other
  
  * Lapérouse (restaurant), restaurant in Paris
  