Botany Bay (Graham Land)
| Botany Bay | ||
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| Waters | Prince Gustav Canal | |
| Land mass | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 40 ′ 40 " S , 57 ° 53 ′ 30" W | |
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The Botany Bay is a small bay on the south coast of the Graham Land belonging Trinity Peninsula in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located between Church Point and Camp Hill .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey surveyed the bay in December 1946. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1949 after the plant fossils found there .
Web links
- Botany Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Botany Bay on geographic.org (English)