Australia – a French Colony?

Sydney Stadtteil La Perouse: Der gleichnamige französische Entdecker kam zu spät Source: AAP

The French La Pérouse expedition left Botany Bay in 1788, and then vanished, rumoured to be wrecked in the Solomon Islands.

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