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 en bay s/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. en w:Ellen Wood 32 East Lynne 1861 "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." IV VII LXXI 149 If everybody got their deserts, Bulstrode might have had to say his prayers at Botany Bay. en 1886 w:Thomas Hardy The Mayor of Casterbridge 8 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!" en former lgarea in s/New South Wales abolished 2016. en Two <<bays>> in <<cont/Antarctica>>. en Antarctica A place in the United Kingdom: en hamlet par/Rosliston dist/South Derbyshire co/Derbyshire cc/England OS grid ref SK2615. en hamlet lbor/Enfield co/Greater London cc/England OS grid ref TQ2999. Ward map (Enfield) en tiny bay near x/Cliftonville and x/Kingsgate dist/Thanet co/Kent cc/England OS grid ref TR3971. en commercial area in the town:pref/Chorley co/Lancashire cc/England OS grid ref SD5918. en hamlet wcomm/Wye Valley co/Monmouthshire cc/Wales OS grid ref SO5202. en UK slang obsolete Worcester College, Oxford. Derived terms en Botany Bay dozen Botany Bay fever Botany Bay greens Botany Bay gum Botany Bay kino Botany Bay oak Botany Bay olive Botany Bay resin References Worcester College en 1873 John Camden Hotten The Slang Dictionary en Sydney