After a visit to Manila, Lapérouse sets …
Years: 1787 - 1787
April
After a visit to Manila, Lapérouse sets out for the northeast Asian coasts the next year, on April 9, 1787.
He sees the island of Quelpart, in the Korean Peninsula, (present-day Cheju in South Korea), which had been visited by Europeans only once before when a group of Dutchmen shipwrecked there in 1635.
He visits the Asian mainland coasts of Korea.
He sees the island of Quelpart, in the Korean Peninsula, (present-day Cheju in South Korea), which had been visited by Europeans only once before when a group of Dutchmen shipwrecked there in 1635.
He visits the Asian mainland coasts of Korea.
