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

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

From Salon • Jul. 1, 2023

They are regarded by indigenous Gweagal men in the Kamay Botany Bay region as "national treasures".

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

Arthur Gayle tells of it in the "Bulletin's" History of Botany Bay.

From The Awful Australian by Desmond, Valerie