Botany Bay
Sydney's historic inlet
Botany Bay is an inlet on the coast of New South Wales, Australia, just south of Sydney.
Captain James Cook first landed there in 1770, and the name became synonymous with the British penal colony established nearby in 1788.
In historical usage, Botany Bay often referred to Australian convict transportation generally, regardless of the actual destination: He was sentenced to Botany Bay for theft.
The bay itself is now bordered by Sydney's suburbs and its international airport.
Imprisoned felons
- penal colonyDistant settlement for exiled criminals
- transportationMoving people or goods
- settlementResolved dispute or colony
- colonizationForeign territorial takeover
British Empire · deportation · exile · indentured servitude · colonists · founding · outpost · Van Diemen's Land
British navigator of Pacific
- EndeavourNamed vessel, two famous
- discoveryAct of finding something
- expeditionOrganized exploratory journey
- James CookFamous British navigator
navigator · voyage · naturalist · flora · fauna · charts · logbook · landfall
Land beside the ocean
- shorelineLand-water boundary
- inletWater extending into land
- headlandCoastal land jutting seaward
- estuaryTidal mixing zone
Pacific Ocean · foreshore · wetlands · sand dunes · mangroves · tidal flats
Transporting goods to destinations
- industrialOf factories and production
- SydneyNew South Wales capital
- national parkProtected land for conservation
- oil refineryPetroleum processing facility
desalination plant · cargo · freight · runway · flight path
Australia's native peoples
- first contactHumanity's alien introduction
- fishing groundsWaters where fish congregate
- ceremonyFormal event marking occasions
- songlinesAboriginal sung navigation routes
dispossession · resistance · spear · canoe · land rights
convicts
Imprisoned felons
- penal colonyDistant settlement for exiled criminals
- transportationMoving people or goods
- settlementResolved dispute or colony
colonization · British Empire · deportation · exile · indentured servitude · colonists · founding · outpost · Van Diemen's Land · chain gang
Captain Cook
British navigator of Pacific
- EndeavourNamed vessel, two famous
- discoveryAct of finding something
- expeditionOrganized exploratory journey
James Cook · navigator · voyage · naturalist · flora · fauna · charts · logbook · landfall · longitude
coast
Land beside the ocean
estuary · Pacific Ocean · foreshore · wetlands · sand dunes · mangroves · tidal flats
shipping
Transporting goods to destinations
- industrialOf factories and production
- SydneyNew South Wales capital
- national parkProtected land for conservation
oil refinery · desalination plant · cargo · freight · runway · flight path
Aboriginal
Australia's native peoples
- first contactHumanity's alien introduction
- fishing groundsWaters where fish congregate
- ceremonyFormal event marking occasions
songlines · dispossession · resistance · spear · canoe · land rights
marine life
Ocean-dwelling organisms collectively
- seagrassSaltwater flowering plant
- wetlandsWater-saturated terrain
- migratory birdsSpecies traveling between seasonal habitats
mangroves · estuary · tidal · seahorse · stingray · pelican · tern · oyster · crab · mudflat
- Bays and GulfsGulf of Mexico, Gulf of Thailand, Gulf of Oman, Gulf of Finland, Gulf of Guinea
- Australasian WatersGreat Barrier Reef, Coral Sea, Tasman Sea, Sydney Harbour, Snowy River
- Australian WatersCoral Sea, Tasman Sea, Sydney Harbour
- Colonial Australiapenal colonies, convicts, penal colony, colonial settlement, colonists
- Cook's VoyagesNew Zealand, Tahiti, Great Barrier Reef, Cook Islands
- NSW GeographySydney Harbour, Blue Mountains, Snowy River, Three Sisters, South Coast
Botany Bayhome
One's personal residence
homeland · motherland · mother country · native land · fatherland
Botany BayPlymouth Colony
Early Massachusetts Pilgrim settlement
Plymouth · Massachusetts Bay Colony · Jamestown · Pennsylvania · promised land