Botany Bay
- Andrew J. Bramlett
- Nov 15, 2022
- 1 min read
Captain Cook first landed in Australia at Botany Bay, named after the variety of plants his naturalist found there. The bay later became a British penal colony and is today part of Sydney. The Aboriginal name for the bay is Kamay, meaning hand.
Image: “Botany Bay” by Albert Henry Fullwood (c. 1904). From the National Library of Australia
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