What is "botany bay"

Botany Bay \Bot"a*ny Bay"\ A harbor on the east coast of Australia, and an English convict settlement there; -- so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770.

Note: Hence, any place to which desperadoes resort.

Botany Bay kino (Med.), an astringent, reddish substance consisting of the inspissated juice of several Australian species of Eucalyptus.

Botany Bay resin (Med.), a resin of reddish yellow color, resembling gamboge, the product of different Australian species of Xanthorrh[ae]a, esp. the grass tree ( Xanthorrh[ae]a hastilis).

Botany Bay, an open oceanic embayment, is located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, south of the Sydney central business district. Botany Bay has its source in the confluence of the Georges River at Taren Point and the Cooks River at Kyeemagh and flows to the east before meeting its mouth, the Tasman Sea, midpoint between La Perouse and Kurnell.

The total catchment area of the bay is approximately . Despite its relative shallowness, the bay serves as greater metropolitan Sydney's main cargo seaport, located at Port Botany, with facilities managed by Sydney Ports Corporation. Two runways of Sydney Airport extend into the bay. Botany Bay National Park is located on the northern and southern headlands of the bay. The area surrounding the bay is generally managed by Roads and Maritime Services.

The land adjacent to Botany Bay was settled for many thousands of years by the Tharawal and Eora Aboriginal peoples and their associated clans. On 29 April 1770, Botany Bay was the site of James Cook's first landing of HMS Endeavour on the continent of Australia, after his extensive navigation of New Zealand. He wrote extensively in his journal about these people, calling them as "Savages of the East." Later the British planned Botany Bay as the site for a penal colony. Out of these plans came the first European habitation of Australia at Sydney Cove. Although the penal settlement was almost immediately shifted to Sydney Cove, for some time in Britain transportation to "Botany Bay" was a metonym for transportation to any of the Australian penal settlements.

Botany Bay is a bay in New South Wales, Australia.

It may also refer to:

Places:

• Botany Bay (Chorley), a community in the North West of England
• Botany Bay, Derbyshire, a small hamlet in South Derbyshire, England
• Botany Bay, Kent, a bay in Broadstairs, Kent, England
• Botany Bay, London, a village in the London Borough of Enfield, England
• Botany Bay, Monmouthshire, an area in the Wye Valley, Wales
• Botany Bay Plantation Wildlife Management Area, a state preserve on Edisto Island, South Carolina, United States
• City of Botany Bay, the local government area in New South Wales
• Botany Bay, Trinity Peninsula, a bay on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica
• Botany Bay, Victoria Land, a bay in Victoria Land, Antarctica
• Botany Bay, former name of an area of Henbury, Bristol, United Kingdom
• Botany Bay, a residential quadrangle in Trinity College, Dublin.

In entertainment:

• Botany Bay, a 1941 novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
• "Botany Bay" (song), a folk song recorded by Rolf Harris among others
• Botany Bay (film), a 1953 film starring Alan Ladd
• SS Botany Bay, a spaceship in the fictional Star Trek universe
• Botany Bay, a fictional planet in the novel Friday (novel) by Robert A. Heinlein
• Botany Bay, a fishing boat used for illegal whale-harpooning in the movie Free Willy 3 The Rescue.

See also:

• Botany Bay National Park, a national park in New South Wales, Australia
• Chrysolopus spectabilis, a species of weevil found in south-eastern Australia, commonly known as the Botany Bay diamond weevil
• Port Botany, New South Wales, a suburb located to the north of Botany Bay, New South Wales, Australia
• Port Botany (seaport), a seaport located on the shore of Botany Bay, New South Wales, Australia

Botany Bay is a 1953 American drama film directed by John Farrow and starring Alan Ladd, James Mason and Patricia Medina. It was based on a novel of the same name by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall.

Botany Bay refers to an area on the outskirts of Chorley alongside the Leeds-Liverpool Canal. It was instrumental in transport for the North West of England and was home to several mills during the Industrial Revolution. The earliest proof of settlements in the Botany Bay area, formerly known as Knowley Moss, date back to 1734 as shown on the map of Chorley at this time. It was not until the late 18th century that Knowley began to develop further when the site was earmarked as the main port for the Chorley area.

"Botany Bay" is a song that can be traced back to the musical burlesque, Little Jack Sheppard, staged at The Gaiety Theatre, London, England, in 1885 and in Melbourne, Australia, in 1886. The show was written by Henry Pottinger Stephens and William Yardley, with music composed and arranged by Wilhelm Meyer Lutz. The show's programme credits "Botany Bay" as "Old Air arr. Lutz", and the more recent crediting of the music for "Botany Bay" to Florian Pascal, is totally spurious. Florian Pascal was the pseudonym of Joseph Williams, Jr. (1847–1923), a music publisher and composer who published the show's music. Pascal composed other numbers in the score but received no credit for "Botany Bay".