a bay on the SE coast of Australia, near Sydney: site of early British penal colony. Discover More Example Sentences The lieutenant, who was promoted to captain in 1772, recorded that 40 spears were taken from the villages of the Gweagal people living at Kamay, the Aboriginal name for Bot...
M. Nugent (2005) Botany Bay: Where Histories Meet (St. Leonards: Allen & Unwin); P. Carolane (2008) ‘Parallel Fantasies: Tourism and Aboriginal Mission at Lake Tyers in the Late Nineteenth Century’ in A. Barry et al. (eds.) Evangelists of Empire?: Missionaries in Colonial History ...
Beyond this cove curved the harbour's jungly shore, like the bronchiole of a lung . Middens of oyster shells lay metres high but the best vantage point was Tarri, or rocky hill, from where one gazed east towards the Pacific.Grover, Amar...