All About Botany Bay
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Botany Bay was Cook's landing place in Australia and as such marked the beginning of Britain's interest in Australia and in the eventual colonisation of this new Southern continent.
Initially the name Stingray Bay or Stingray Harbour was used by Cook and other journal keepers on his expedition, for the stingrays they caught. That name was recorded on an Admiralty chart too. Cook's log for 6 May 1770 records "The great quantity of these sort of fish found in this place occasioned my giving it the name of Stingrays Harbour". However, in his journal (prepared later from his log), he changed to "The great quantity of plants Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander found in this place occasioned my giving it the Name of Botany Bay". Initially the name Botanist Bay was also sometimes used.
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