botany bay

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Definition von botany bay im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

a place in southeast Australia, close to Sydney, where a narrow part of the sea reaches into the land, which was visited in 1770 by Captain Cook. In the early 19th century, another place in this area was used as a place for sending British criminals as a punishment, and this was also given the name 'Botany Bay'. Inlet of the South Pacific Ocean, southeastern Australia. Lying south of Sydney off Port Jackson, it is about 6 mi (10 km) at its widest. It was the scene of the first Australian landing by Capt. James Cook in 1770; he named the bay for its great variety of plants. It was selected in 1787 as the site for a penal settlement, but the settlement was soon transferred inland. Its shores are now ringed by Sydney's suburbs

A harbor on the east coast of Australia, and an English convict settlement there; so called from the number of new plants found on its shore at its discovery by Cook in 1770

Relevante Übersetzungen

Botany Bay dozen

25 lashes, ie. strokes of a whip across a person's back as a punishment. (Reference: Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore, 1987, paperback 1996 ISBN 1-86046-150-6, chapter 12.)

Silbentrennung

bot·a·ny bay

Türkische aussprache

bätıni bey

Aussprache

/ˈbätənē ˈbā/ /ˈbɑːtəniː ˈbeɪ/