Mount La Perouse is a 10,728-foot (3,270 meter) glaciated mountain summit located in the Fairweather Range of the Saint Elias Mountains, in southeast Alaska, United States. The peak is situated in Glacier Bay National Park, 4 mi (6 km) southeast of Mount Dagelet, 7.6 mi (12 km) south-southeast of Mount Crillon which is the nearest higher peak, and 28.6 mi (46 km) southeast of Mount Fairweather, which is the highest peak in the Fairweather Range. Topographic relief is significant as the mountain rises up from tidewater in less than nine miles. The mountain was named in 1874 by William Healey Dall of the U.S. Geological Survey, for Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (1741–1788), a French navigator who explored this coastal area in 1786.[3][4] The first ascent of the peak was made in 1953 by USGS party consisting of James Seitz, Karl Stauffer, Rowland Tabor, Rolland Reid, and Paul Bowen.[5] On February 16, 2014, a colossal 68 million ton landslide broke free from the flanks of Mt. La Perouse and flowed nearly 4.6 miles (7.4 km) from where it originated.[6] The months May through June offer the most favorable weather for climbing and viewing.
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MountLaPerouse is a 10,728-foot (3,270 meter) glaciated mountain summit located in the Fairweather Range of the Saint Elias Mountains, in southeast Alaska...
French explorer Jean Francois de Galaup de laPerouse. Mount Crillon lies about 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Mount Fairweather. It is near the southern end...
Glacier Bay National Park, 4.6 mi (7 km) south of Mount Crillon, and 4 mi (6 km) northwest of MountLaPerouse, which is the nearest highest peak. Topographic...
2017. "Anchorage Daily News, 68 million ton landslide in Alaska: MountLaPerouse". Archived from the original on 2020-01-25. Retrieved 2020-06-18. Snohomish...
The LaPerouse Mission Church is a heritage-listed former church building and now vacant building and unused church located at 46 Adina Avenue, La Perouse...
kilometres (5 mi) northwest of Aoraki / Mount Cook in a valley overlooked by the peaks of Mount Sefton and MountLaPerouse. A popular tramping track known as...
Jean-François de La Pérouse in 1786. La Chaussée means "causeway". MountLaPérouse (3231 m) and LaPérouse Glacier in the Fairweather Range of Alaska, both named...
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the explorer LaPérouse, from his ship off the California coast, in 1786, but this has been disputed. During the last 10,000 years, Mount Shasta has erupted...
plates. Mount Abbe Mount Cooper Mount Crillon Mount Dagelet Mount Eliza Mount Fairweather Mount Forde MountLaPerouseMount Lodge Mount Orville Mount Quincy...
Gingidium procumbens by Ferdinand von Mueller from plants collected at MountLaPerouse, Tasmania by A. Oldfield. Anisotome procumbens is a mat- or cushion-forming...
been translated into many languages. It was called "Mt. Beautemps" by LaPerouse (1786, atlas), "Mte. Buen-tiempo" by Galiano (1802, map 3), "Gor[a]-Khoroshy-pogody"...
Sakhalin moved to Hokkaido, 43 kilometres (27 mi) to the south across the LaPérouse Strait, when Japanese civilians were displaced from the island in 1949...
northern and southern headlands of Botany Bay. The northern headland is at LaPerouse and the southern headland is at Kurnell. The visitor attraction, natural...
after its highest point, Mount Edgecumbe, was named Montaña de San Jacinto by Don Juan de la Bodega y Quadra in 1775. LaPérouse referred to that name by...
Galaup, comte de Lapérouse to lead a sailing expedition around the world (LaPérouse and his fleet disappeared after leaving Botany Bay in March 1788. Louis...
ascended the south ridge of Aoraki / Mount Cook, New Zealand's highest peak. He took part in an arduous rescue on LaPerouse in 1948, befriending fellow climber...
The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaidō from Honshu (Aomori Prefecture); LaPérouse Strait separates Hokkaidō from the island of Sakhalin in Russia; Nemuro...
posthumously published in the official Atlas du Voyage de laPerouse (Paris: L'Imprimerie de la Republique, An V, 1797). Young Dagelet arrived in Paris...
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