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No trace of La Pérouse had been found by the Entrecasteaux expedition. In May of 1793, when Entrecasteaux passed from New Caledonia into the Santa Cruz group, a bearing had been taken on an unknown island in the distance that he named the Ile de la Recherche, now Vanikola Island. We cannot say precisely how close they came to the site that would prove to be the locale of the La Pérouse shipwreck, nor is it certain why they left the island uninvestigated.
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Williams, R.L. (2003). Epilogue. In: French Botany in the Enlightenment. Archives Internationales D’Histoire des Idées / International Archives of the History of Ideas, vol 182. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0187-7_16
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