The New Student's Reference Work/Botany Bay

Bot′any Bay, a harbor in New South Wales, on the east coast of Australia, five miles south of Sydney. It was discovered by Captain Cook in 1770, and named from the large number of beautiful flowers and shrubs in its vicinity, though in other respects it is rather barren. In 1787 it received England’s first penal colony in the east, and although the colony was removed the next year to Port Jackson, yet Botany Bay long continued to be the popular name, not only for this colony, but for all convict settlements. The spot where Captain Cook first landed is now marked by a monument.