Botany Bay

noun

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

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At eight A. M. of the 20th, we anchored with the whole of the convoy in Botany-bay, in eight fathoms water.
An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island
John Hunter
They found Colebe near the head of Botany-Bay, where he was striking fish, and ran some risk of being shot.
An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island
John Hunter

British Dictionary definitions for botany bay

Botany Bay

noun

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

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

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