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Botany Bay
Description
Botany Bay - first named Stingray Bay - was named to mark the large collections of botanical specimens made by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander in 1770. Both James Cook and Banks described it positively after the Endeavour's landfall, and Banks later urged its settlement as a penal colony. While, Captain Arthur Phillip preferred Port Jackson for the settlement in 1788, Botany Bay is now a part of the Greater Sydney area.
Associated place
Botany Bay, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Banks' proposed site of settlement
Associated date
28/04/1770
Discovered by Cook in 1770
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