Botany Bay and Rockdale will be merged, despite little connection, instead of being merged with the eastern suburbs and Georges River councils respectively.
Botany Bay, near present-day Sydney, had been placed in this process of imperial expansion as an outpost valued for commercial purposes and as a means of protecting British shipping, particularly from French competitors.
Botany Bay is a great spot and nearby Joss Bay is also popular as it has a surf school (jossbay.co.uk, surfboard hire £15 a half-day, surf lessons from £35).
Botany Bay Plantation Wildlife Management Area is one of only four known natural nesting sites for least terns (Sternula antillarum) on the South Carolina coast, and more than 20,000 people visit the 3-mile stretch of beach each nesting season since it opened to the public in 2008.
Botany Bay utilized a design Matt Jefferies created prior to the USS Enterprise.
Historically, the state's major ports were Sydney (Port Jackson), Botany Bay, Newcastle, and Port Kembla.
And don't miss the beaches: Botany Bay, an hour's walk east, or Minnis Bay, to the west, are more spectacular than the town-centre beach.
THE shores of Botany Bay, modern Australia's birthplace near Sydney, offer a snapshot of the country's two-speed economy.
This was opposed initially by a small but influential conservative faction, known as "exclusives" or "Botany Bay Tories," that clustered around John Macarthur.
Mary Reibey became a prominent businesswoman, Samuel Terry was known as the "Botany Bay Rothschild," and the landowner, trader, and manufacturer Simeon Lord rose to a position of wealth.
Cook landed several times, most notably at Botany Bay and at Possession Island in the north, where on August 23 he claimed the land, naming it New South Wales.
