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How did botany bay get its name?

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How did botany bay get its name?

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Botany Bay’s original name, as given by James Cook, was “Stingray Harbour”. However, it was later changed to “Botany Bay” because of the many new and unique plant species that Cook’s botanists (Sir Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander) found, classified and catalogued there.

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