Botany Bay
2 of the 7 encyclopedias on this shelf carry an entry for Botany Bay. Both are reproduced below, so you can see where they agree and where they differ.
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
a border water on the southeastern coast of New South Wales , Australia. It received its name in 1770 from Sir Joseph Banks, the botanist of Captain Cook's voyage of discovery, who collected a large number of new plants here. At this time Captain Cook took possession in the name of England. In 1788, the American colonies having asserted their independence, and being no longer available as a place of banishment for convicts, the British government founded a penal colony on Port Jackson, where Sydney now stands. It was the British policy for many years to banish thieves, forgers, housebreakers, rioters, and other troublesome characters to this colony, instead of imprisoning them. In some way the colony acquired the popular name of "Botany Bay," but, as a matter of fact, the convict establishment was on the other side of a peninsula some ten miles from Botany Bay. The custom was discontinued in 1840, because of the protest from the settlers, who by that time had become numerous and influential. See Australia 2026 Editor's Note: "Botany Bay" became the byword for convict transportation even though, as the entry notes, the fleet moved on to Port Jackson to settle. Some 160,000 convicts were shipped out before it ended in 1868 — and where a convict ancestor was once hidden in shame, Australians now research and announce them with pride. (Ed: BR 2026-07-04)
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a bay of New South Wales, Australia, 5 miles S. of Sydney. It was discovered by Captain Cook, on his first voyage, in 1770, and named by him from the great number of new plants found in its vicinity. In 1787 it received England's first penal colony in the East; and, though it was supplanted the very next year by Port Jackson, yet it long continued to be the popular designation, not merely of this penal settlement, but of the Australian convict settlements generally.