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Last Update: Tuesday, May 10, 2005. 12:14pm (AEST) La Perouse wreck identified in Solomon IsA wreck found off the Solomon Islands has been formally identified as a ship belonging to French explorer Jean Francois de Galaup de La Perouse, who disappeared in the Pacific archipelago more than 200 years ago. The Solomon Islands Association launched an expedition in April to retrace La Perouse's final voyage in 1788. The group says it has identified the wreck as the remains of La Boussole, one of the explorer's two vessels. La Perouse had been asked by the French King Louis XVI to chart the globe to open new maritime routes. He left France in August 1785 with two frigates, La Boussole and L'Astrolabe. From Botany Bay, he sent a message in March 1788 that he expected to be back in France by the following December but the expedition was never heard from again.
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