Botany Bay

Botany Bay is a bay in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, a few kilometres south of the central business district. It was the site of a landing by James Cook of the HMS Endeavour that marked the beginning of Britain's interest in, and eventual colonisation of, Australia (Captain Cook's map of Botany Bay). In modern times it is chiefly notable for being the site of Kingsford Smith International Airport, Australia's largest. The land around the headlands of the bay is protected as Botany Bay National Park. Towra Point Nature Reserve is also within Botany Bay.

Pop culture

• The SS Botany Bay was the name of a fictional sleeper ship seen in the ' episode "Space Seed." This ship was referenced, though unseen, in the film ' when Pavel Chekov found a fragment of it and famously read "Botany Bay...oh, no!"
• The Botany Bay was a fictional whaling ship featured in the film ', probably named in reference to the above.