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Why did Captain James Cook name the island he landed on Botany Bay Botany Bay?
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Botany Bay was named after the botanist Joseph Banks, who was a passenger on the Endeavour. Banks had been sent to Australia to find new plants to bring back to England, and he had also been sent to New Zealand. When he saw the land that Cook had landed on, he was so impressed that he named the place Botany Bay, and later on the name was extended to the entire region.