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Port Botany, New South Wales

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spent several days on shore collecting vast numbers of previously unknown specimen. Cook's journals first referred to the bay as Sting Rays' Harbour, then later Botanist Bay and finally both these names were crossed out and replaced with Botany Bay. The suburb name comes from the bay it stands on.
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Port Botany is a major commercial area that is serviced by road and rail networks, together with Sydney's nearby international and domestic airports. The two
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facilities are complemented by a bulk liquids facility and an adjacent bulk liquids storage and distribution complex.
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first landed on 29 April 1770, when navigating his way up the east-coast of Australia on his ship, the
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This article is about the suburb. For the port located within it, see
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Index

Port Botany (seaport)
Sydney
New South Wales

2016
Postcode(s)
Sydney CBD
LGA(s)
City of Randwick
State electorate(s)
Maroubra
Federal division(s)
Kingsford Smith
Suburbs
Botany
Banksmeadow
Matraville
Sydney Airport
Phillip Bay
Botany Bay
Kurnell
La Perouse
suburb
New South Wales
Australia
Sydney central business district
local government area
City of Randwick
Botany Bay
Matraville

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