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Botany Bay ( Dharawal: Kamay) is an open oceanic embayment, [2] located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 13 km (8 mi) south of the Sydney central business district.
Botany Bay, inlet of the Tasman Sea (Pacific Ocean), indenting New South Wales, Australia. Roughly circular, about 5 miles (8 km) across and 1 mile (1.6 km) wide at its mouth (between the La Perouse and Kurnell peninsulas), it receives the Georges and Cooks rivers. The bay was the site in 1770 of.
About 162,000 male and female prisoners were sent to Botany Bay between 1788 and 1868, the last year that convicts were sent there. Most prisoners at Botany Bay were from England, Ireland, or Scotland, but some were from other colonies of England such as Canada, India, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and the countries of the Caribbean Sea. Many ...
Botany Bay (Kamay), New South Wales Gweagal and Bidjigal country. The collection of the Gweagal shield at the place where James Cook first set foot in Australia is a key moment in history. Explore this encounter and the ways Gweagal and Bidjigal peoples maintain country and culture in Sydney today. Setting the scene
Apr 29, 2020 · It was at Kamay (Botany Bay) that James Cook first set foot on the Australian continent. His landing was challenged by two men, from the Gweagal clan of the Dharawal nation, standing on the beach. For many Australians, this is one of Australia’s foundational moments in history.
Apr 28, 2020 · If war broke out with Spain in the region, Botany Bay could be a place of refuge for British naval vessels. Another advocate, John Call, an engineer with the East India Company, saw the...
Visit Kamay Botany Bay National Park to see Captain Cooks landing place at Kurnell. The heritage-listed site is an important place in Australia's history.
Aug 18, 2023 · Things to Do in Botany Bay, Australia: See Tripadvisor's 1,161 traveller reviews and photos of Botany Bay tourist attractions. Find what to do today, this weekend, or in July. We have reviews of the best places to see in Botany Bay. Visit top-rated & must-see attractions.
Kamay Botany Bay National Park is located at La Perouse and Kurnell in Sydney. Discover its rich Aboriginal culture, explore Captain Cooks landing place, spot native plants on a bushwalk or look for whales at Cape Solander.
Botany Bay wasn’t James Cook’s first choice of name for the bay. He first named it ‘Sting Ray Harbour’. On 6 May 1770, Cook changed the name in his journal. First to 'Botanist’s Bay', before settling on ‘Botany Bay’ because of the ‘great quantity of new plants … collected by Mr Banks and Dr Solander'. James Cook, 6 May 1770:
