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Botany Bay
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Botany Bay an inlet of the Tasman Sea in New South Wales, Australia, just south of Sydney, which was the site of Captain James Cook's landing in 1770 and of an early British penal settlement.
It was named by Cook after the large variety of plants collected there by his companion, Sir Joseph Banks.
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Botany Bay: voyagers, aborigines and history. (Interpreting Space/Place).
Magazine article from: Journal of Australian Studies; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...headland on the north side of Botany Bay was given the name La Perouse...monumentalised at Botany Bay. (6) This gradually changed...Cook was resurrected, and Botany Bay was one place in which...was not monumentalised at Botany Bay. His memory belonged at...
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BOTANY BAY PLANTATION OPEN FOR PUBLIC ACCESS
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 7/11/2008; 700+ words
; ...following press release: Botany Bay Plantation, a 4,630...DNR managers that Botany Bay Plantation WMA becomes...youth opportunities at Botany Bay Plantation for fishing...special place." To get to Botany Bay Plantation WMA, travel...
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Mid-Jurassic age for the Botany Bay Group: implications for Weddell Sea Basin creation and southern hemisphere biostratigraphy
Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society; 9/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...and flood plain sediments of the Botany Bay Group demonstrate that sedimentation...floras, including those from the Botany Bay Group. Orlando (1971), Rees...amp; Cleal (2004) assigned the Botany Bay Group flora to the Early Jurassic...
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Timbers Company Unveils the Preserve at Botany Bay, an Unprecedented Real Estate Opportunity on the Western Tip of St. Thomas.
PR Newswire; 7/26/2006; 700+ words
; ...development of The Preserve at Botany Bay. The tranquil 367-acre...develop The Preserve at Botany Bay, as its newest multi...The Preserve at Botany Bay will enjoy a wealth of...against the water's edge of Botany Bay or the neighboring...
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 "Chorley Guardian (Chorley, England)")
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Park-and-ride set for Botany Bay?
Newspaper article from: Chorley Guardian (Chorley, England); 3/14/2007; 700+ words
; ...Chorley's parking problems - with Botany Bay touted as a possible location...Wood, general manager at Botany Bay said: "Botany Bay would be happy to discuss with...and-ride scheme to operate from Botany Bay for the duration of development...
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Botany Bay: where histories meet.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Australian Aboriginal Studies; 9/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; Botany Bay: where histories meet Maria Nugent Allen...ISBN 1741145759 Not another book about Botany Bay, I thought. What more could be said...As a place of exile the north shore of Botany Bay saw an influx of both unemployed Indigenous...
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Multi-million pound Botany Bay plans 'on track'.
Newspaper article from: Chorley Guardian (Chorley, England); 3/21/2007; 661 words
; ...plans to develop land near Botany Bay are still firmly on track...property tycoon and owner of Botany Bay recently unveiled his...it owns adjoining Botany Bay. "Botany Bay has no current...Chamber has approached Botany Bay to discuss this possibility...
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 "AAP Sports News (Australia)")
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ATHS: Botany Bay Gift results collated
Newspaper article from: AAP Sports News (Australia); 2/21/1999; 322 words
; AAP Sports News (Australia) 02-21-1999 ATHS: Botany Bay Gift results collated BOTANY BAY GIFT at Sir Joseph Banks Park: MEN: Botany Bay Gift 120m: R Ballard (NSW 4.5m) 11.95s R Smith (NSW 5m) R Buchanan...
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 "AAP General News (Australia)")
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NSW: Botany Bay chemical spill under control: Carr
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 8/31/2004; 468 words
; ...08-31-2004 NSW: Botany Bay chemical spill under control...serious chemical spill at Botany Bay is now confident the...groundwater reaching the bay." Mr Murrihy said the...jel/cjh/jlw KEYWORD: BOTANY LEAD 2004 AAP Information...
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 "Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)")
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Botany Bay is giving back.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA); 12/22/2007; 700+ words
; ...love to travel and wanted an interesting and historic name for his new company. Botany Bay Construction Co. Inc. and Botany Bay Properties were born in 1982. Botany Bay, an exotic location in Sydney, Australia, is the site of the first Australian...
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Botany Bay
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Botany Bay, discovered on 29 April 1770 by Captain...Botanists' (Harbour and Bay), and finally Botany Bay in his journal, probably to honour...novelties. Banks later (1786) advocated Botany Bay as an ideal place for a penal colony...
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Ibn Al-Bayṭār Al-Mālaqī, Ḍiyāʾ Al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdllāh Ibn Aḥmad
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Ibn Al-Bay ṭ ā r Al-M ā laq...1190; d . Damascus, Syria, 1248) pharmacology, botany . Ibn al-Bay ṭ ā r may have belonged to the Bay ṭ ā r family of M á laga...
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Arthur Phillip
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...penal colony about to be established at Botany Bay, Australia. The 11 ships of the 1st Fleet reached Botany Bay in January 1788 after a voyage of 8...great natural harbor a few miles north of Botany Bay. Three-quarters of the 1, 030 persons...
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Sydney
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cities
...metropolitan area encompasses Botany Bay to the south, reaches to...as well as a newer port in Botany Bay devoted exclusively to petroleum...vast harbor with many coves, bays, and inlets. The harbor runs...the suburbs of Watsons, Rose Bay, and Vaucluse, which are not...
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Gesner, Konrad
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...Montpellier to carry on work in botany. He settled permanently in...in preparing his treatises on botany and zoology. In 1555 Gesner...first interest. Fascinated by botany as a youth, Gesner continued...concerning Gesner are J. C. Bay, “ Conrad Gesner...
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