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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Example Sentences

Police said one man was pulled unconscious from Botany Bay, off the coast of Sydney, and later died, while the other man was taken to hospital in a stable condition, police said.

From Reuters • Sep. 30, 2023

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

Among the shoals and sand banks of the coast, they saw many large birds, and some in particular of the same kind which they had seen in Botany Bay.

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