English Dictionary

Botany Bay

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(geography) A bay of New South Wales, south of Sydney Cove, Australia; the site of a landing by explorer Captain James Cook and later of the First Fleet, and originally planned to be the site of the first penal colony in Australia.

Botany Bay is a beautiful natural harbor located in New South Wales.

意味（1）

(geography) A bay of New South Wales, south of Sydney Cove, Australia; the site of a landing by explorer Captain James Cook and later of the First Fleet, and originally planned to be the site of the first penal colony in Australia.

意味（2）

The penal colony, actually established at Sydney Cove, which developed into the now city of Sydney.

Do you come from West Lynne? / Yes. Horrid place. Mrs. Latimer took a house there soon after I went to live with her. I'd rather she'd taken it at Botany Bay.

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(UK, slang, obsolete) Worcester College, Oxford.