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Botany Bay Examples noun
- a bay on the SE coast of Australia, near Sydney: site of early British penal colony.
Examples from the Web for botany bay Historical Examples of botany bay
At eight A. M. of the 20th, we anchored with the whole of the convoy in Botany-bay, in eight fathoms water.
An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island
John Hunter
They found Colebe near the head of Botany-Bay, where he was striking fish, and ran some risk of being shot.
An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island
John Hunter
British Dictionary definitions for botany bay Botany Bay noun
- an inlet of the Tasman Sea, on the SE coast of Australia: surrounded by the suburbs of Sydney
- (in the 19th century) a British penal settlement that was in fact at Port Jackson, New South Wales