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2. Botany, New South Wales - Wikipedia

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   Botany Bay, to the south, is where Captain James Cook first landed on 29 April 1770, when navigating his way around Australia on his ship, the Endeavour. The ship's English botanist Joseph Banks and Swedish assistant botanist Daniel Solander , spent several days on shore collecting vast numbers of specimens, that were previously unknown in Europe.

3. First voyage of James Cook - Wikipedia

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   Cook's landing at Botany Bay (Kamay), 1770 Captain Cook landing place plaque. Endeavour continued northwards along the coastline, keeping the land in sight with Cook charting and naming landmarks as he went. A little over a week later, they came across an extensive but shallow inlet, and upon entering it moored off a low headland fronted by ...

4. Bicentenary of James Cook in Australia - Wikipedia

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   A monument to Cook's landing at Botany Bay. The Bicentenary of James Cook in Australia was commemorated in Australia in 1970. The British explorer Lieutenant (later Captain) James Cook charted the east coast of Australia in 1770, and claimed the eastern seaboard of the continent for the British Crown. It was not considered the official ...

5. James Cook - Wikipedia

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   The Journals of Captain James Cook on His Voyages of Discovery. Vol. I: The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768–1771. Cambridge University Press. OCLC 223185477. Beaglehole, John Cawte (1974). The Life of Captain James Cook. A & C Black. ISBN 978-0-7136-1382-7. Blainey, Geoffrey (2020). Captain Cook's Epic Voyage: the strange quest for a missing ...

6. Botany Bay - Wikipedia

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   Botany Bay (Dharawal: Kamay) is an open oceanic embayment, [2] located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 13 km (8 mi) south of the Sydney central business district.Its source is the confluence of the Georges River at Taren Point and San Souci as well as the Cooks River at Kyeemagh, which flows 10 km (6 mi) to the east before meeting its mouth at the Tasman Sea, midpoint between the ...

7. Cook's Landing Place, Town of Seventeen Seventy - Wikipedia

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   Cook described the countryside as "visibly worse" than at Botany Bay, with dry and sandy soils, woods free of undergrowth, the same sort of numerous "birch" tree (coastal ironbark), mangroves skirting the lagoon and palm trees on low, barren, sandy places. He also noted bustards, black and white ducks, small oysters and other shell fish ...