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What did Cook call Botany Bay?

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James Cook originally called botany Bay Stingray Harbour.

The name Botany Bay was suggested by Joseph Banks, the famed scientists and botanist who travelled with James Cook between 1768 and 1771. Banks was impressed by all the new species of flora and collected many new botanical specimens at Botany Bay - hence the name change.

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