Botany Bay

American  

noun

1. a bay on the SE coast of Australia, near Sydney: site of early British penal colony.

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Botany Bay British  

noun

1. an inlet of the Tasman Sea, on the SE coast of Australia: surrounded by the suburbs of Sydney

2. (in the 19th century) a British penal settlement that was in fact at Port Jackson, New South Wales

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Botany Bay

Botany Bay, they already know what he and his kind have wrought.

From Salon ● Jul. 1, 2023

There are plans for the artefacts to be displayed at a new visitor centre being built at Kurnell, Botany Bay.

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2023

I drove over to Botany Bay Plantation, a 4,630-acre nature reserve, and followed a trail through marshland to Driftwood Beach.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2022

Aborigines inhabited Australia more than 50,000 years before the First Fleet sailed into Botany Bay near Sydney in 1788 after the country had been declared ‘terra nullius’, or unoccupied.

From Reuters ● Apr. 4, 2018

Between this latitude and Botany Bay, it exhibits a pleasing variety of ridges, hills, valleys and plains, all clothed with wood, of the same appearance with that which has been mentioned before.

From Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods by Kippis, Andrew