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	Botany Bay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Botany Bay is a bay in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, a few kilometers south of the central business district.
		The land around the headlands of the bay is protected as Botany Bay National Park.
		Botany Bay was the destination of the prison ship in the song The Fields of Athenry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Botany_Bay (585 words)

	Botany Bay: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The City of Botany Bay is the name of the local government area which encompasses suburbs adjacent to the bay (such as Botany, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Botany is the scientific study of plant life....
		Sydney cove is a small bay on the southern shore of port jackson (commonly but incorrectly called sydney harbour), on the coast of the state of new south...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bo/botany_bay.htm (1296 words)

	Earthjustice: Newsroom
		Botany Bay was formerly a plantation under Danish Colonial Rule, and a large slave cemetery and the ruins of a sugar mill are found at the site.
		Botany Bay is also home to rare pre-Columbian artifacts and sites that have yet to be fully catalogued, and experts believe it was considered a holy place by the Tainos and other native peoples that once populated the Eastern Caribbean.
		Sandy Bay, which abuts the northern coast of the estate, provides nesting habitat for sea turtles and the surrounding coral reefs and seagrass beds provide important foraging habitat for the leatherback and the hawksbill, both endangered species, and the green turtle, a threatened species.
	www.earthjustice.org /news/display.html?ID=559 (921 words)

	Botany Bay - The reasons for Colonisation
		As the First Fleet arrived at Botany Bay in January 1788, little did they know that historians in years to come would be disputing the real reasons for the British Government’s plans to establish a colony there.
		The traditionalist may well ask that if Botany Bay was planned to be the ‘great southern port’ why then did the first free settlers not arrive until 1793 on the Bellona, eight years after the arrival of the First Fleet, again adding more baffling options and outcomes to the Botany Bay debate.
		Botany Bay had already been surveyed by Cook in 1770 noting the (so called) natural resources available, by colonising at New South Wales, Britain would protect Cook’s ‘right of possession’ over Botany Bay from the French and Dutch, thus giving them more positional power over the seas and any possible trade.
	www.ulladulla.info /historian/botanybay.html (1650 words)

	Botany, New South Wales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Botany is a suburb in the City of Botany Bay in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
		It is located next to Mascot, Sydney Airport, and is adjacent to Botany Bay.
		Botany also has a large chemical production facility owned by Orica (previously ICI).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Botany,_New_South_Wales (134 words)

	SS Botany Bay - Memory Alpha
		The USS Enterprise alongside the SS Botany Bay, adrift in the Mutara Sector.
		The Botany Bay was used to escape Earth by a group of genetically-enhanced humans (augments) lead by Khan Noonien Singh.
		The exact date of the Botany Bay's launch is given in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan as 1996.
	memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/SS_Botany_Bay (367 words)

	Estuaries of NSW - Botany Bay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Botany Bay forms an oval shaped embayment approximately 7 km long and 5.5 km wide.
		The bay is relatively shallow with a depth at low water of typically 5.5 m.
		Considerable areas of seagrass, particularly on the southern side of the bay, limit erosion and provide a habitat and shelter for many animals and plants - also important mangrove and saltmarsh areas in Quibray Bay, Weeney Bay and Woolooware Bay on the southern shore.
	www.dlwc.nsw.gov.au /care/water/estuaries/Inventory/botany.html (171 words)

	botany bay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Botany Bay was the first permanent British settlement in Australia and was founded as a penal colony.
		In 1770, Captain James Cook had landed on the east coast of Australia, proclaimed British sovereignty over the bay and surrounding area, and named it Stingray Harbor.” A naturalist who accompanied the voyage, Sir Joseph Banks, renamed the area “Botany Bay,” after the novel flora growing around the landing site.
		Despite Captain Cook’s assurance that the area called Botany Bay was a suitable location for a settlement, the settlers found the area to be without fresh water, to be too open to the sea to protect boats, and to have soil too poor to grow British crops.
	athena.english.vt.edu /~jmooney/3044annotationsa-g/botanybay.html (307 words)

	BOTANY BAY: Matthew Flinders & the Coastal Landforms of SE Australia
		The inlets of Botany Bay and Port Hacking reflect altered conditions during the glacial period, when rivers cut valleys to a lower sea level, and subsequent sea level rise drowned the excavated lowlands.
		Botany Bay is a moderately large coastal indentation not far south of Sydney Harbour.
		It has grown beyond Botany Bay to Port Hacking in the south, to Broken Bay in the north, to the coast in the east, and to the foot of the Blue Mountains in the west.
	www.vnc.qld.edu.au /enviro/flinders/f-p-nmb.htm (2137 words)

	Australian Songs - Botany Bay - Lyrics and Music, Photos, Art, Poetry
		On the 29th April 1770 a British ship named the Endeavour, and under the command of James Cook, anchored in what was later named Botany Bay.
		Botany Bay is now surrounded by the suburbs of Sydney.
		Ten years after the naming of Botany Bay the first fleet left Britain in May 1787 and reached Botany Bay on January 19-20-1788.
	www.imagesaustralia.com /botanybay.htm (439 words)

	Sailing aboard Botany Bay with David Zielke
		January 15-16, 2005: Botany Bay's engine room is nearly complete, Tom and I spent the weekend cutting sound proofing foam for the engine room.
		Botany Bay has quite a few little projects remaining after finishing the big refit of 2003.
		In fact it was quite the adventure with Botany Bay and Alegria sailing together for the first time in a while as Tom and I have
	www.botanybay.org (1275 words)

	Botany Bay Home Page
		Botany Bay is a specialist company built upon a reputation for fresh ideas and designs.
		Botany Bay are Garden Design Consultants and a nursery located in Newton Mearns, Glasgow.
		Botany Bay takes a unique approach to garden designing resulting in a harmonious mix of hard and soft landscaping.
	www.botanybaybaskets.co.uk (372 words)

	Botany Bay (I) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Botany Bay (I) Botany Bay (I) The singer is paying for his life of crime by being transported to Botany Bay.
		The fleet's original destination was Botany Bay (so-called because of all the wildlife found by the original explorers), but this proved so barren that the fleet's commander, Captain Arthur Phillip (1738-1814; governor 1788-1792), decided to move a short way up the coast to Sydney.
		Despite the fact that Botany Bay was never settled, its name came to be synonymous with Australian penal colonies.
	www.csufresno.edu /folklore/ballads/R096.html (237 words)

	Botany Bay. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The bay was named by Cook and Sir Joseph Banks because of the interesting flora on its shores.
		Although Australia’s first penal colony was often called Botany Bay, its actual site was at Sydney on Port Jackson.
		The bay is now an important cargo port with chemical facilities and an oil refinery.
	www.bartleby.com /65/bo/BotanyBa.html (147 words)

	Botany Bay on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		LEGACY OF THE CONVICT ARTIST; Falling foul of Scottish law, Thomas Watling was transported to Botany Bay.There he became the first to paint Australia's unique flora and fauna, yet ended his life in poverty.
		TORSTEN BLACKWOOD Agence France Presse 06-04-2004 Paroula's dancers perform a traditional Greek dance by the shores of Botany Bay in Sydney, 04 June 2004, at the beginning of the flame's two-day tour of Australia.
		TORSTEN BLACKWOOD Agence France Presse 06-04-2004 Australian Olympic basketball captain Shane Heal (L) lights the Olympic Cauldron by the shores of Botany Bay in Sydney, 04 June 2004, at the beginning of the flame's two-day tour of Australia.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/b/botanyb1a.asp (788 words)

	Dynamic Page - Botany Bay Florist Case Study (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Botany Bay is one of Atlanta’s leading florist.
		Botany Bay Florist needed to develop a website to sell their products and services online.
		Botany Bay had specific platform and technology requirements that they wanted to stick to.
	www.dynamicpage.com /clients/BotanyBayFlorist_CaseStudy.htm (411 words)

	EO Newsroom: New Images - Botany Bay, New South Wales
		Botany Bay, pictured in the image above, earned its name from the diverse collection of new and unfamiliar botanical specimens described and collected by the expedition’s botanist, Sir Joseph Banks.
		Cook suggested Botany Bay as a possible future colony site, but the settlers arriving with the First Fleet in January of 1788 found the cove to the north more suitable.
		Two major Sydney landmarks are on or next to the bay: Port Botany, a major terminal for container ships (located at about 3 o’clock), and Kingsford-Smith Airport, Sydney’s international airport (located at about 12 o’clock).
	earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16732 (403 words)

	Triskelle - Song Lyrics: Botany Bay
		Between 1791 and 1868 approximately 40,000 Irish men, women and children are transported to Australia, initially known as New South Wales.
		The first penal colony in Australia was planned at Botany Bay, but the commander of the so-called First Fleet, Captain Phillip, held the bay unsuitable for a settlement.
		Botany Bay has become the synonym for transportation, notwithstanding the fact that there has never been a penal colony in this bay.
	www.vincentpeters.nl /triskelle/lyrics/botanybay.php?index=080.010.020.020 (190 words)

	Bound for Botany Bay Sydney - NSW - Travel - MyNRMA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		First dubbed Stingray Bay because of the prevalence of these creatures, the wide, sandy bay was soon re-named Botany Bay after more than 3,000 new botanical specimens were collected within a few days by the expedition's naturalist, Joseph Banks.
		Australia's most famous convict ballad, Botany Bay, was inspired by the fearful reputation of the penal convict that was established 18 years later - even though the settlement was not here but at Sydney Harbour.
		On the southern arm of the Bay, Kurnell Peninsula, also the home of huge oil refineries, are the 100 hectares of Captain Cook's Landing Place in the Botany Bay National Park.
	www.mynrma.com.au /sydney_his.asp (789 words)

	Sydney Ports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Located 12 kilometres from Sydney's central business district, Botany Bay is well serviced by road and rail networks, together with Sydney's nearby international and domestic airports.
		With the growing importance of containerised and bulk liquid cargoes, Botany Bay is rapidly becoming the focus for trade in Sydney Ports.
		Botany Bay's two modern container terminals together represent a vital link in the NSW shipping chain.
	www.sydneyports.com.au /portfacilities/main.asp?pageid=157 (133 words)

	Botany Bay - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Botany Bay - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Botany Bay, inlet of the Tasman Sea, eastern Australia, in New South Wales, near Sydney, between Cape Banks and Cape Solander.
		The first European settlement in the Australian land mass was initially located at Botany Bay but Governor Arthur Phillip soon moved the group of...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Botany_Bay.html (118 words)

	Botany Bay Spends A Week At Midway
		We worked on Botany Bay in the morning and then about 3 in the afternoon we headed off to the bar for a frozen concoction to help us hang on.
		Botany Bay burned significantly more fuel in the passage from Kwajalein to Midway than I had intended.
		However, the park service representative looked at Botany Bay and decided we were not a risk.
	www.vsdev.com /botanybay/botanybay/Voyages/Midway/Midway.htm (658 words)

	Joseph Banks Recommends Botany Bay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		There were no tame animals and he saw no wild ones during his stay of ten days but he observed the dung of what were called kangaroos, which were the size of a middling sheep, but very swift and difficult to catch.
		There was a great plenty of fish, he took a large quantity by hauling the sein and struck several stingrays, a kind of skate, all very large; one weighed 336 pounds.
		Their escape would be very difficult, as the country was far distant from any part of the globe inhabited by Europeans.
	www.grandpapencil.com /austral/intell1.htm (563 words)

	Botany Bay
		This blog is dedicated to the cartoon series, "Botany Bay".
		Botany Bay was the name given to a bay in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia that became a penal colony for England in 1788 (or others may know it as Khan's ship in Star Trek...
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	bbhs.blogspot.com (224 words)

	Botany Bay
		Botany Bay, inlet, New South Wales, SE Australia, just S of Sydney.
		It was visited in 1770 by James Cook, who proclaimed British sovereignty over the east coast of Australia.
		This Day in History: January 18 - January 18 1733 The first polar bear was exhibited in America, in Boston.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0808451.html (192 words)

	First Fleet 1788 Story
		The First Fleet left England on 13th May 1787 for the 'lands beyond the seas' - Australia, stopping at Tenerife, Rio de Janeiro and Cape Town, where food supplies were replenished.
		The fleet arrived at Botany Bay between 18th and 20th January 1788.
		Botany Bay had other shortcomings as well, it was open to the sea, making it unsafe for the ships and Captain Arthur Phillip (the Colony's first Governor) considered the soil around Botany Bay was poor for crop growing.
	www.ulladulla.info /historian/ffstory.html (1569 words)

	Cape Town Accommodation \| Botany Bay \| Self Catering Apartment in Bantry Bay, Cape Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The trendy, upmarket suburb of Bantry Bay has got to be one of the most idyllic places to come and relax.
		Our 2 bed roomed apartment at Botany Bay is situated on the doorstep of some of the Cape’s finest beaches — Camps Bay and Clifton.
		We can arrange to do this on your day of arrival and also for the duration of your stay at Botany Bay.
	www.capestay.co.za /botanybay (334 words)

	Botany Bay - Destinations National Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Canal Mill, Botany Brow, Chorley, Lancashire PR6 9AF.
		Readers may associate Botany Bay with the penal colony formed by the British in 1788 on the northern shores of the south-eastern suburbs of Sydney - Australia where hundreds of prisoners were transported for their wrongdoing.
		Here on home soil situated on the outskirts of the small Lancashire town of Chorley is Britain’s own version of a very different type...
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /destinations-national/botany-bay (120 words)

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