Botany Bay National Park contains more history and scenery per square metre than just about anywhere else in Australia.
As Captain Cook Drive sweeps past a rubbish tip, skate park and oil refinery, it's hard to believe there's a national park somewhere nearby..
The bay was the site in 1770 of Captain James Cook's first landing in Australia.
He named it Stingray Harbour but later changed the name because of the variety of new plants found there by his expedition's naturalist, Joseph (later Sir Joseph) Banks..
In July 2022, the council's planning committee approved separate plans to build a \xa326m industrial and commercial park on a 21-acre site at Botany Bay..
Botany Bay lies just a few miles south of Sydney's central business district: this is the place where the British, under the command of Captain James Cook, first set foot on shore in 1770.
Today the bay is part of Botany Bay National Park, filled with beautiful landscapes, nature walks and fascinating museums..
Botany is a suburb in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
Botany is located 11 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district and is part of the Bayside Council..
Botany Bay, inlet of the Tasman Sea (Pacific Ocean), indenting New South Wales, Australia.
Roughly circular, about 5 miles (8 km) across and 1 mile (1.6 km) wide at its mouth (between the La Perouse and Kurnell peninsulas), it receives the Georges and Cooks rivers..
It was at Kamay (Botany Bay) that James Cook first set foot on the Australian continent.
His landing was challenged by two men, from the Gweagal clan of the Dharawal nation, standing on the beach.
For many Australians, this is one of Australia's foundational moments in history..
