Botany

Suburb

Industrial and residential suburb on the northern shore of Botany Bay, immediately east of Sydney Airport.

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Alternate
Booralee

Botany

by Mark Butler, 2011

 

Visited by James Cook and Joseph Banks in 1770, but rejected as a site for the colony in 1788 by Arthur Phillip, Botany remained an important source of water and a site for varied industry throughout the nineteenth century, before becoming a transport hub in the twentieth. Throughout, a close-knit community has survived.
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