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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'' . 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 ). 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 . 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 Stingray s they caught. That name was recorded on an Admiralty chart too. , editor W. J. L. Wharton's footnote to 6 May 1770 . 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". Ray Parkin , ''H. M. Bark Endeavour'', Miegunyah Press , second edition 2003, ISBN 0-522-85093-6, page 203. 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 Ballad s such as Ireland 's The Fields Of Athenry . The good supply of Fresh Water in the area led to the expansion of its population in the 19th Century . KINGSFORD AIRPORT AND PORT BOTANY Since 19... the small Mascot Aerodrome at Botany developed into Sydney (Kingsford Smith) Airport . Port Botany was built in 1930 and is now a Container Terminal . POP CULTURE
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