Botany Bay
World Encyclopedia | Date: 2005
Botany Bay Large, shallow inlet immediately
s of Port Jackson, Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia. It was visited in 1700 by Captain James
Cook, who named it because of its flora. It is fed by the Georges and Woronora rivers, and is
c.1.6km (1mi) wide at its mouth.
© World Encyclopedia 2005, originally published by Oxford University Press 2005.
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Multi-million pound Botany Bay plans 'on track'.
Chorley Guardian (Chorley, England); 3/21/2007; 284 words
; Tim Knowles' multi-million pound plans to develop land near Botany Bay are still firmly on track. The property tycoon and owner of Botany Bay recently unveiled his [pounds sterling]4m vision for land between the Leeds and Liverpool canal and the M61. His property company First Investments submitted
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Botany Bay: voyagers, aborigines and history. (Interpreting Space/Place).
Journal of Australian Studies; 1/1/2003; Nugent, Maria; 787 words
; Some time in the mid-nineteenth century a headland on the north side of Botany Bay was given the name La Perouse in honour of the French navigator Comte de Galaup de Laperouse. (1) This memorial gesture was part of a long tradition, beginning in 1788, whereby the headland was made into a site of
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Botany Bay: where histories meet.(Book review)
Australian Aboriginal Studies; 9/22/2005; Thompson, John E.; 787 words
; Botany Bay: where histories meet Maria Nugent Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2005, xiv+256pp, ISBN 1741145759 Not another book about Botany Bay, I thought. What more could be said about a dull low-lying stretch of sand and low scrub surrounding a shallow bay, rejected as a home by the European invaders
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Virgin Islands Weighs Past vs. Profit; Environmentalists Protest Development of Unspoiled Botany Bay
The Washington Post; 2/17/2002; Jim Day; 550 words
; It stands apart from the sprawl of T-shirt stands, souvenir shops and pastel-colored hotels, a swath of untouched land that is home to 1,400-year-old Indian ruins. The 360 acres surrounding Botany Bay on the western end of St. Thomas island has long been a refuge from the clamor of Charlotte
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Park-and-ride set for Botany Bay?
Chorley Guardian (Chorley, England); 3/14/2007; 423 words
; A park-and-ride scheme could be on the cards to ease Chorley's parking problems - with Botany Bay touted as a possible location. Council chiefs acknowledge something will have to be done when work starts on a multi-million pound extension to the Market Walk shopping mall as half of the town's main
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