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Astrolabe ist der Name dreier französischer Forschungsschiffe:

Astrolabe (1781)

Die erste Astrolabe war eine umgebaute Fleute der französischen Marine.

Am 1. August 1785 stach sie unter dem Kommando von Paul Antoine Fleuriot de Langle zusammen mit der Boussole, die von Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse befehligt wurde von Brest in See.

Mount SHastA

Disappearance

The expedition vanished mysteriously in 1788 after leaving Botany Bay on 10 March 1788. The fate of the expedition was eventually solved by Captain Peter Dillon in 1827 when he found remnants of the ships the Astrolable and the Boussole at Vanikoro Island in the New Hebrides. The ships had been wrecked in a storm.

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.

Note

It's crew included French priest Louis Receveur the first Catholic and second non-indigenous person to be buried in Australia.

References

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Astrolabe 1833