Port Botany, New South Wales

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Port Botany
Sydney, NSW

View of Port Botany from La Perouse
Postcode: 2036
Location: 12 km (7 mi) south-east of Sydney CBD
LGA: City of Randwick
State District: Maroubra
Federal Division: Kingsford Smith
Suburbs around Port Botany:
Botany Banksmeadow Matraville
Sydney Airport Port Botany Phillip Bay
Botany Bay Kurnell La Perouse
Molineaux Point
Molineaux Point

Port Botany is a suburb in south-eastern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Port Botany is located 12 kilometres south-east of the Sydney central business district, is in the local government area of the City of Randwick. Port Botany sits on the northern shore of Botany Bay, adjacent to the suburbs of Matraville, Banksmeadow and Phillip Bay.

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[edit] History

Botany Bay is where Captain James Cook first landed on 29th April 1770, when navigating his way around Australia on his ship, the Endeavour. The ship's English botanist Joseph Banks and Swedish assistant botanist Daniel Solander, spent several days on shore collecting vast numbers of specimens, that were previously unknown. 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. [1]

[edit] Landmarks

Molineaux Point features a memorial to on Botany Bay provides views to La Perouse and Kurnell. A memorial here commemorates the sister ports relationship between Sydney Ports Corporation and Yokkaichi Port Authority, Mie Japan.

[edit] Commercial Area

Main article: Port Botany (seaport)

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 Container Terminal facilities are complemented by a bulk liquids facility and an adjacent bulk liquids storage and distribution complex.

The NSW Government has decided to expand Port Botany with a 60 ha third terminal (twice the size of that recommended by an independent Commission of Enquiry (COI) by dredging 7.5 million cubic metres of Botany Bay seabed. Construction of the 60 ha land mass began in mid-2008. [2]

Sydney Ports Corporation

Shipping container cranes

Container cranes, Patrick Corporation

[edit] References

  1. ^ The Book of Sydney Suburbs, Compiled by Frances Pollen, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1990, Published in Australia ISBN 0-207-14495-8, page 35
  2. ^ http://www.sydneyports.com.au/ Sydney Ports

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