Botany Bay

Meaning

Proper Noun

• bay New South Wales (state), south of Sydney Cove, Australia; the site of a landing by explorer Captain James Cook and later of the First Fleet, and originally planned to be the site of the first penal colony in Australia.
• The penal colony, actually established at Sydney Cove, which developed into the now city of Sydney.
• Worcester College, Oxford.

Origin

• The bay was named by explorer James Cook for the variety of plants observed near the shore.
• So called from its remote situation.