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Bicentennial Monument at Botany Bay

Botany Bay is a bay in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, a few kilometers south of the central business district. It was the site of a landing by James Cook of the HMS Endeavour. ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (616x816, 78 KB) Bicentennial Monument at Botany Bay, Sydney, Australia. ... ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (616x816, 78 KB) Bicentennial Monument at Botany Bay, Sydney, Australia. ... The bay at San Sebastián, Spain A headland is an area of land adjacent to water on three sides. ... This article is about the Australian city. ... Emblems: Floral - Waratah (Telopea Speciosissima); Bird - Kookaburra (Dacelo Gigas); Animal - Platypus (Ornithorhynchus Anatinus); Fish - Blue Groper (Achoerodus Viridis) Motto: Orta Recens Quam Pura Nites (Newly Risen, How Brightly You Shine) Slogan or Nickname: First State, Premier State Other Australian states and territories Capital Sydney Government Governor Premier Const. ... The central business district of Melbourne, Australia. ... James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. ... Nine ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Endeavour. ...

Name and short history

Cook's landing marked the beginning of Britain's interest in Australia and in the eventual colonisation of this new Southern continent (Captain Cook's map of Botany Bay). Colonisation (or colonization) is the act where life forms move into a distant area where their kind is sparse or not yet existing at all and set up new settlements in the area. ...

In modern times the Bay is chiefly notable for being the site of Kingsford Smith International Airport, Australia's largest. The land around the headlands of the bay is protected as Botany Bay National Park. Also within Botany Bay is Towra Point Nature Reserve. Sydney (Kingsford Smith) International Airport, or Sydney Airport (IATA: SYD, ICAO: YSSY), is located in the Sydney suburb of Mascot. ... Botany Bay is a national park in New South Wales (Australia), 16 km south of Sydney. ... Towra Point Nature Reserve is a nature reserve of 386 ha located within the Sutherland Shire, NSW, Australia. ...

Image of Sydney taken by NASA RS satellite (42x33 km, right down the Botany Bay). The city centre is about a third of the way in on the south shore of the upper inlet. Click on the image and then scroll down for an annotated version!

Initially the name Stingray Bay was used by Cook and other journal keepers on his expedition, for the stingrays they caught. That name was recorded on an Admiralty chart too. ^[1] Cook's log for 6 May 1770 records "The great quantity of these sort of fish found in this place occasioned my giving it the name of Stingrays Harbour".
But in his journal (prepared later from his log) he changed to "The great quantity of plants Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander found in this place occasioned my giving it the Name of Botany Bay". ^[2] This simulated true-color Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) image shows the Sydney metropolitan area on October 12, 2001, and covers an area of 42 by 33 kilometers. ... This simulated true-color Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) image shows the Sydney metropolitan area on October 12, 2001, and covers an area of 42 by 33 kilometers. ... RS has different meanings depending on the context: Religious studies, the science of major religions, rites and rituals. ... Genera Dasyatis Himantura Pastinachus Pteroplatytrygon Taeniura Urogymnus See text for species. ... May 6 is the 126th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (127th in leap years). ... 1770 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Image:Http://www. ... Daniel Carlsson Solander (February 19, 1733 – May 16, 1782) was a Swedish botanist. ...

In 1788, Captain Arthur Phillip led the First Fleet into the bay on 19 January 1788 to found a penal colony there. Finding that the sandy infertile soil of the site in fact rendered it most unsuitable for settlement, Phillip decided instead to move to the excellent natural harbor of Port Jackson to the north. On 26 January, while still anchored in the bay, the British encountered the French exploratory expedition of Jean-François de La Pérouse. Panicked by the thought that the French might beat them to it, the colonists sailed that afternoon to found a settlement at Sydney Cove. Despite the move, for many years afterward, the Australian penal colony would be referred to as "Botany Bay" in England - and in convict ballads such as Ireland's The Fields of Athenry. 1788 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Admiral Arthur Phillip (1786 portrait by Francis Wheatley, National Portrait Gallery, London) Admiral Arthur Phillip (11 October 1738 – 31 August 1814) was a British naval officer, governor of the first European settlement in Australia and founder of the city of Sydney. ... The First Fleet is the name given to the 11 ships which sailed from the United Kingdom in May 1787 to establish the first European colony in New South Wales. ... January 19 is the 19th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1788 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... A Penal Colony is a colony used to detain prisoners and generally use them for penal labor in an economically underdeveloped part of the states (usually colonial) territories, and on a far larger scale than the prison farm. ... Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge located on Port Jackson Port Jackson, also known as Sydney Harbour, is the natural harbour of Sydney, Australia. ... January 26 is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Lapérouse by François Rude (1784-1855), in 1828 Lapérouse Jean François Galaup, count (comte) de La Pérouse (August 23, 1741 - 1788) was a French naval officer and explorer whose expedition vanished in Oceania. ... Sydney Cove is a small bay on the southern shore of Port Jackson (commonly but incorrectly called Sydney Harbour), on the coast of the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the British Isles Languages None official English de facto Capital None official London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population – Total (mid-2004) – Total (2001... This page is a candidate to be copied to Wikisource. ... The Fields of Athenry is a song about the Irish Famine of the late 1840s, which was composed in the 1980s by Pete St. ...

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Kingsford Airport and Port Botany

Since 19... the small Mascot Aerodrome at Botany developed into Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport. Aerodrome can mean: An Austrian music festival: Aerodrome A series of aircraft constructed by Samuel Pierpont Langley. ... Sydney (Kingsford Smith) International Airport, or Sydney Airport (IATA: SYD, ICAO: YSSY), is located in the Sydney suburb of Mascot. ...

Port Botany was built in 1930 and is now a container terminal. This page meets Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... A container terminal is a facility where cargo containers are loaded or unloaded from ships to land vehicles, for further transport. ...

Pop culture

• The SS Botany Bay was the name of a fictional sleeper ship seen in the Star Trek episode "Space Seed." This ship was referenced, though unseen, in the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan when Pavel Chekov found a fragment of it and famously read "Botany Bay...oh, no!"
• The Botany Bay was a fictional whaling ship featured in the film Free Willy 3: The Rescue, probably named in reference to the above.
• Botany Bay was the destination of the prison ship in the song The Fields of Athenry.

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References

1. ^ Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World, available for free via Project Gutenberg, editor W. J. L. Wharton's footnote to 6 May 1770.
2. ^ Ray Parkin, H. M. Bark Endeavour, Miegunyah Press, second edition 2003, ISBN 0-522-85093-6, page 203.

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External Links

• City Of Botany Bay