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.
They found Colebe near the head of Botany-Bay, where he was striking fish, and ran some risk of being shot.
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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