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Botany Bay

Botany Bay
Luftfoto af det sydøstlige Sydney med Botany Bay. De to stykker land, der stikker ud i bugten er landingsbaner for Sydney Airport.
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Land	New South Wales, Australien
Tilløb	Georges River, Cooks River
Afvandingsareal	54,9 km2
Overfladeareal	39,6 km2
Maks. dybde	11,4 meter
Oversigtskort
beliggenhed 33°59′59″S 151°13′59″Ø

Botany Bay eller Botanybugten er en havbugt ud til det Tasmanske Hav i New South Wales i Australien, 13 kilometer syd for centrum af Sydney. To floder løber ud i bugten: Georges River ved Taren Point og Cooks River ved Kyeemagh. Bugten har et areal på næsten 40 km². Åbningen mod havet ligger mellem de to forstæder La Perouse og Kurnell. Det nordlige forbjerg ved bugtens åbning er Cape Banks og i syd hedder det ydre forbjerg Cape Solander og det indre Sutherland Point. Alle tre er navngivet efter medlemmer af James Cooks ekspedition, der 29. april 1770 gik i land i Botany Bay, som de første europæere på den australske østkyst.

Til trods for at bugten er relativt lavvandet, fungerer den som Sydneys vigtigste fragthavn. Havnen ligger ved Port Botany i den nordøstlige del af bugten tæt på Australiens største lufthavn, Sydney Airport, som har to landingsbaner, der delvist er anlagt ud i bugten. Botany Bay National Park ligger på begge sider af åbningen mod havet.

Historie

Der er arkæologiske spor efter en aboriginsk bosættelse ved Botany Bay for 5.000 år siden. Før briternes ankomst var området omkring bugten beboet af stammerne Eora mod nord, Tharawal mod syd og Dharug mod vest. Bidjigal-klanen, som tilhørte Dharug eller muligvis Eora, boede mellem Cooks River og Georges River. På de sydlige bredder boede Gweagal, som tilhørte Tharawal, og på de nordlige bredder boede Kameygal-klanen, som tilhørte Eora.

British history

Isaac Smith became the first European to set foot on eastern Australian soil, Cook telling him "Jump out, Isaac" as the ship's boat touched the shore at Botany Bay.

Botany Bay, 1788 watercolour by Charles Gore

Løjtnant James Cook gik i land søndag 29. april 1770 på Silver Beach ved Kurnell i den sydlige del af Botany Bay. Cook sejlede med sit skib HMS Endeavour fra syd mod nord langs den australske kyst. Det var første gang, han gik i land på østkysten, og det var indledningen på Storbritanniens interesse for Australien og en mulig kolonisering af det nye kontinent. Til at begynde med blev navnet Stingrays Harbour (Rokkehavnen) brugt af Cook og andre medlemmer af ekspeditionen efter de rokker, de fangede i bugten. Navnet blev også brugt på et kort udarbejdet af det Britiske Admiralitet. Cook skriver i sin log 6. maj 1770: "The great quantity of these sort of fish found in this place occasioned my giving it the name of Stingrays Harbour". However, in the journal prepared later from his log, Cook wrote instead: (sic) "The great quantity of plants Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander found in this place occasioned my giving it the name of Botanist Botany Bay".

Eighteen years later, in 1788, Governor Arthur Phillip sailed the armed tender HMS Supply into the bay on 18 January. First contact was made with the local Indigenous people, the Eora, who seemed curious but suspicious of the newcomers. Two days later the remaining ships of the First Fleet arrived to found the planned penal colony. However, the land was quickly ruled unsuitable for settlement as there was insufficient fresh water; Phillip also believed the swampy foreshores would render any colony unhealthy as the bay was open and unprotected, the water too shallow to allow the ships to anchor close to the shore, and the soil was poor.

The area was studded with enormously strong trees. When the convicts tried to cut them down, their tools broke and the tree trunks had to be blasted out of the ground with gunpowder. The primitive huts built for the officers and officials quickly collapsed in rainstorms. Crucially, Phillip worried that his fledgling colony was exposed to attack from Aborigines or foreign powers. Although his initial instructions were to establish the colony at Botany Bay, he was authorised to establish the colony elsewhere if necessary. As such, Phillip decided instead to move to the excellent natural harbour of Port Jackson to the north.

Although the penal settlement was almost immediately shifted to Sydney Cove, for some time in Britain transportation to "Botany Bay" was a metonym for transportation to any of the Australian penal settlements.

On the morning of 24 January the French exploratory expedition of Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse was seen outside Botany Bay. On 26 January, the Supply left the bay to move up to Port Jackson and anchor in Sydney Cove. On the afternoon of 26 January, the remaining ships of First Fleet arrived at Sydney Cove. In 1789, Captain John Hunter surveyed Botany Bay after returning from the Cape of Good Hope, trading for grain. The good supply of fresh water in the area led to the expansion of its population in the 19th century.

The western shore of Botany Bay remained in its virgin state for almost fifty years after the initial settlement of Sydney Town. Land access to the area was difficult until a route from the west was established via Canterbury. As this route developed it became known as Illawarra Road, which is still one of the main access routes to the south-eastern suburbs of Sydney. The land nearer to this crossing of Cooks River was cleared and settled quite early in the infancy of the new colony.

Landmarks

Monument at La Perouse.

Sydney Airport, Australia's busiest airport, sits on the northwestern side of Botany Bay. Some of its runways go out into the bay. After World War II the mouth of the Cooks River was moved two kilometres west to make way for the airport extension. Land was reclaimed from the bay to extend its first north–south runway and to build a second, parallel, runway.

The first container terminal at Port Botany, east of the airport, was completed during the 1970s and is the largest container terminal in Sydney. A second container terminal was completed during the 1980s and bulk liquid storage facilities are located on the northern and southern edge of the bay. A third container terminal was completed in 2011.

The land around the headlands of the bay is protected by the National Parks and Wildlife Service as Kamay Botany Bay National Park. On the northern side of the mouth of the bay is the historic site of La Perouse, and to the south is Kurnell. Despite its relative isolation, the southern shore of the bay is dominated by an unusual mixture of pristine national park and heavy industrial use that includes Kurnell Desalination Plant, the Caltex Fuel Terminal, sewer treatment, and historical sand mining facilities. On the southern side of the bay a section of water has been fenced off under the authority of the National Parks and Wildlife Service at Towra Point for environmental conservation purposes.

The western shores of the bay feature many popular swimming beaches including Lady Robinsons Beach and are highly urbanised.

There are also a lot of bunkers around Botany Bay. The bunkers were built by the military during WWII and still remain.

Marine life

Botany Bay has a diverse marine population, and the area around its entrance is a popular area for scuba diving. In recent times, the Botany Bay Watch Project has begun with volunteers assisting to monitor and protect the Bay Catchment and its unique marine life.

The world's largest population of weedy sea dragon ever surveyed is found at the 'Steps' dive site, on the Kurnell side of the Botany Bay National Park. Weedy sea dragons are just one of hundreds of territorial marine creatures found within Botany Bay. The eastern blue groper is the state fish of New South Wales; it is very tame and is commonly found following divers along the shoreline of Botany Bay.

In popular culture

• Despite the move to Sydney Cove, for many years the Australian penal colony would be referred to as "Botany Bay" in England, and in ballads such as "The Fields of Athenry," by Irish songwriter Pete St. John.
• A song named "Botany Bay" has been performed as a folk and music hall song since the 1890s, based on older tunes. It also refers to the penal colony.
• A song entitled "The Shores of Botany Bay" was written by Brian Warfield and recorded by The Wolfe Tones in the early 1970s. This satirical song deals with a group of Irishmen volunteering for the transportation process in the hopes of finding wealth in Australia.
• A song titled "Bound for Botany Bay" is featured on Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist John Doyle's album Shadow and Light.
• In the 1941 historical novel Botany Bay by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, the protagonist, after various adventures and misadventures in England, gets transported to Botany Bay. A movie based on the book starring Alan Ladd and James Mason was shot in 1953.
• The song "Jim Jones at Botany Bay" (aka "Jim Jones") is about a prisoner who is going to Botany Bay. The song has been recorded several times, including a well-known version by Bob Dylan, and sung by Jennifer Jason Leigh in The Hateful Eight.
• SS Botany Bay was the name of the spaceship on which Khan Noonien Singh and his followers escaped from Earth in Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
• In the play and musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Benjamin Barker, the man who would become Sweeney Todd, was transported to Botany Bay for life on a false charge by Judge Turpin.
• In the MMORPG Runescape, Botany Bay is the name of a location in-game where players can view other players' accounts being penalized for using "bots", computer macros, to cheat.

See also

• Kamay Botany Bay National Park

Gallery

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  The mouth of Botany Bay as it meets the Tasman Sea, as viewed from the air, above Kurnell
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  The mouth of Botany Bay from the air
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  Botany Bay, view from Kurnell
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  Black-eyed Sue and Sweet Poll of Plymouth, England, mourning their lovers who are soon to be transported to Botany Bay, 1792
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  Bicentennial Monument at Brighton-Le-Sands
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  Sydney Airport runway near Botany Bay beach

References

Works cited

• Beaglehole, J.C., red. (1968). 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. {{cite book}}: Cite har en ukendt tom parameter: |month= (hjælp)

Further reading

• Britton, Alex R., red. (1978). Historical records of New South Wales. Vol. 1, part 2. Phillip, 1783–1792. Lansdown Slattery & Co. s. 56. OCLC 219911274. {{cite book}}: Cite har en ukendt tom parameter: |month= (hjælp)
• Forster, George (2008). Allgemeines historisches Taschenbuch, oder, Abriss der merkwuridgsten neuen Welt Begebenheiten enthaltend fur 1787 [Neuholland und die brittische Colonie in Botany-Bay/New Holland and the British colony at Botany Bay] (German). Robert J. King, translator. Canberra: National Library of Australia.{{cite book}}: CS1-vedligeholdelse: Ukendt sprog (link)
• Tench, Watkin (2006). Anacharsis (red.). Le texte fondateur de l'Australie, récit de voyage d'un capitaine de la First Fleet durant l'Expédition à Botany Bay (French). preface by Merle, d'Isabelle. s. 320. ISBN 2-914777-30-2. Arkiveret fra originalen 25. november 2006. Hentet 24. maj 2011.{{cite book}}: CS1-vedligeholdelse: Ukendt sprog (link)
• The History of Botany-Bay . Falkirk: T. Johnston. 1798.

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• "Georges River catchment" (map). Office of Environment and Heritage. Government of New South Wales.
• NSW Environment & Heritage webpage
• Irish Examiner article concerning penal colony
• Joanne Sippel (2013). "Booralee fishing town". Dictionary of Sydney. Dictionary of Sydney Trust. Hentet 6. oktober 2015.