Botany Bay (Victoria Land)
| Botany Bay | ||
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| Waters | Granite Harbor , Ross Sea | |
| Land mass | Victoria Land | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Botany Bay is a small bay on the Scott Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is located in the southern part of Granite Harbor between Cape Geology and Discovery Bluff .
The bay was mapped by the western group of the British Terra Nova Expedition (1911-1913) under the direction of the polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott . Thomas Griffith Taylor and Frank Debenham , the two Australian members of the Western Group, named them after Botany Bay in Australia .
Web links
- Botany Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Botany Bay on geographic.org (English)