Botany Bay

== English == === Etymology === The bay was named by explorer James Cook for the variety of plants observed near the shore. (Worcester College): So called from its remote situation. === Proper noun === Botany Bay A bay of New South Wales, 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. (UK, slang, obsolete) Worcester College, Oxford. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== References ==== (Worcester College): John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary