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Botany Bay en · PROPN

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.

Meanings

  1. 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.
  2. The penal colony, actually established at Sydney Cove, which developed into the now city of Sydney.
    • If everybody got their deserts, Bulstrode might have had to say his prayers at Botany Bay. 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter LXXI, in Middlemarch […], volume IV, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book VII, page 149:
    • "Do you come from West Lynne?" / Yes. "Horrid place. Mrs. Latimer took a house there soon after I went to live with her. I'd rather she'd taken it at Botany Bay." 1861, Ellen Wood, chapter 32, in East Lynne:
    • Christopher Coney was silenced, and as he could get no public sympathy, he mumbled his feelings to himself: "Be dazed, if I loved my country half as well as the young feller do, I'd live by claning my neighbour's pigsties afore I'd go away! For my part I've no more love for my country than I have for Botany Bay!" 1886, Thomas Hardy, chapter 8, in The Mayor of Casterbridge:
  3. A former local government area in New South Wales (abolished 2016).
  4. Two bays in Antarctica.
  5. A place in the United Kingdom: ▸ A hamlet in Rosliston parish, South Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK2615).
  6. A place in the United Kingdom: ▸ A hamlet in the borough of Enfield, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2999).
  7. A place in the United Kingdom: ▸ A tiny bay near Cliftonville and Kingsgate, Thanet district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR3971).
  8. A place in the United Kingdom: ▸ A commercial area in the town of Chorley, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD5918).
  9. A place in the United Kingdom: ▸ A hamlet in Wye Valley community, Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref SO5202).
  10. (UK, obsolete, slang) Worcester College, Oxford.

Deriveds

Botany Bay kino · Botany Bay gum · Botany Bay resin · Botany Bay oak · Botany Bay fever · Botany Bay dozen · Botany Bay greens · Botany Bay olive

wikipedia: James Cook