Botany Bay

Proper noun

Botany Bay

1. 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.
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."1861, Ellen Wood, chapter 32, in East Lynne
   • If everybody got their deserts, Bulstrode might have had to say his prayers at Botany Bay.1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter LXXI, in Middlemarch […], volume IV, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book VII, page 149
3. A former local government area in New South Wales (abolished 2016).
4. Two bays in Antarctica.
5. A hamlet in Rosliston parish, South Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK2615).
6. A hamlet in the borough of Enfield, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2999).
7. A tiny bay near Cliftonville and Kingsgate, Thanet district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR3971).
8. A commercial area in the town of Chorley, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD5918).
9. A hamlet in Wye Valley community, Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref SO5202).
10. (UK, obsolete, slang) Worcester College, Oxford.