英语词汇botany bay的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	botany bay
词源	Botany Bay. Captain James Cook named Botany Bay after the many new botanical specimens he found there on his voy- age to Australia in 1770. Later, the inlet’s name came to be wrongly applied to a convict settlement at Sydney, and even to the whole of Australia.
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