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

The lieutenant, who was promoted to captain in 1772, recorded that 40 spears were taken from the villages of the Gweagal people living at Kamay, the Aboriginal name for Botany Bay.

From BBC

What they came up with was evoked in schemes to establish a national penal colony in places like Île-à-Vache, off the coast of Haiti, and Alaska, dubbed “America’s Botany Bay.”

From Salon

A filming model of the “SS Botany Bay” vessel from “Star Trek: The Original Series” from the 1960s went for $200,000 while prop devices from that series like a hero phaser went for $187,500 and a tricorder garnered $175,000.

From Seattle Times

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

Mr Manners, who lives in Botany Bay in Kent, has previously said: "There were a couple of occasions when I was told I was going to be shot, the guard came out in a rage, kicked me around a bit, put a gun against my head and pulled the trigger a few inches away."

From BBC