Botany Bay
Americannoun
noun
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an inlet of the Tasman Sea, on the SE coast of Australia: surrounded by the suburbs of Sydney
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(in the 19th century) a British penal settlement that was in fact at Port Jackson, New South Wales
Example Sentences
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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
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
On the dramatic rugged seacoast of Botany Bay near Sydney, on the spot where Captain Cook first stepped onto Australia in 1770, La Perouse is renown for its ocean views and high winds.
From Golf Digest ● Jan. 11, 2018
Some of them remarked, 'You will not feel like singing in Botany Bay.'
From Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier by Severance, Frank H.
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