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Vanikoro escape: The archaeological potential of the La Perouse expedition survivor craft (2022)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. When the two ships of the French exploratory expedition under La Perouse were wrecked in Vanuatu in 1788, the survivors built another vessel from salvaged components and attempted to sail back to France. They never made it, and the expedition was lost without trace until the shipwrecks were discovered in Vanuatu in 1827. The fate...