Botany Bay is in New South Wales.
Botany Bay is located about 8 km south of Port Jackson, where Sydney, the capital of New South Wales, lies.
Botany Bay is a bay in New South Wales, a few kilometers south of the Sydney. Botany Bay was the site of James Cook's first landing of HMS Endeavour on the continent of Australia.
Sydney, capital of New South Wales.
Captain James Cook described botany bay/Sydney Cove as looking similar to that of south Wales, hense he named the area of Sydney Cove/Botany Bay NEW South Wales.
The New South Wales capital of Sydney has now expanded to Botany Bay, but Sydney did not have its origins there. Botany Bay was unsuitable for settlement, so Sydney was first established on the shores of Port Jackson.
Botany Bay is located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was the site of James Cook's first landing in Australia in the year 1770 on the 29th of April.
The earliest settlers arrived in New South Wales on 26 January 1788. They actually arrived at Botany Bay on 18 January 1788, but did not stay there, moving north to Port Jackson.
Sydney.The first convicts were sent to New South Wales to colonise Botany Bay, but Botany Bay proved unsuitable, so the fleet moved north to Port jackson, where Sydney now stands.
James Cook claimed Australia for Britain under the name of New South Wales at Botany Bay.
Botany Bay was discovered by Lieutenant James Cook in 1770 during his first voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Cook was a British explorer and navigator who later claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain.
James Cook (a Lieutenant when he arrived in Australia, not a captain) claimed the east coast of Australia for Great Britain in 1770. He named it New South Wales.