Botany Bay , the “botanical bay”, is a bay located at Sydney in News-Wales-of-South (Australia), with a few kilometers in the south of the center of the city (). This bay was the theater of the unloading of James Cook which sailed on the Endeavor .

Historic insight

The unloading of Cook marked the starting point of the British interest in Australia and of the later Colonisation of this new “continent of the south”. (Chart of Botany Bay drawn by the Cook captain).

At the time modern, the bay is mainly known like site of the aéoport international Kingsford Smith, most important of Australia. The area located around the headlands of bay is protected within the framework from the National park from Botany Bay. In Botany Bay is also the Natural reserve of Towra Point.

In the beginning, Cook, and other writers of the newspaper of forwarding, called bay, “ Stingray Bay ” because of the line which they had captured. This name was also recorded in a charter of Admiralty. The notebook of Cook of May 6th, 1770 notes: “the great quantity of this type of fish found in this place pushed me to give him the name of Stingrays Harbor ”.
But, in its newspaper, (prepared later on starting from its notebook), it modified it in “the great quantity of plants that Mr. Banks and the Dr. Solander found in this place pushed me to give him the name of Botany Bay ”.

Airports of Kingsford and Port Botany

Small the Aérodrome Mascot in Botany Bay gradually was increased and renamed in 1953 in Aéroport of Sydney (Kingsford Smith) in 1953.

Port Botany was built in 1930 and is currently a Terminal container .

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