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Where is Kamay Botany Bay?
Where is Kamay Botany Bay?
Kamay Botany Bay is in the southern part of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Kamay Botany Bay is in the southern part of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Kamay Botany Bay is Dharawal Country.
Kamay Botany Bay is Dharawal Country.
Where is your local area?
What Aboriginal Country are you on?
Can you find it on the map below?
“It’s my father's land, my grandfather’s land, my grandmother's land. And I’m related to it, which also give me my identity." Father Dave Passi
Map by Captain James Cook | State Library of Queensland
Kamay Botany Bay: 1770
Kamay Botany Bay: 1770
Google Earth view
Kamay Botany Bay: 2020
Kamay Botany Bay: 2020
Let's take a closer look at Kamay Botany Bay:
- What do you notice about the map made by Captain James Cook and the present-day aerial view photograph?
- How has the land changed / stayed the same?
- Have you visited Kamay Botany Bay before?
- How far away is it from your school?
Extend your thinking
Extend your thinking
Use this website to find your school. You can compare an aerial view map of 1943 and present day.
- What do you notice?
- What has been the cause of the change in landscape?
- Who and what has been impacted by the change?
Now...
Now...
Imagine and sketch what the landscape may have looked like in 1770.
Aerial photographs of Kurnell, Kamay Botany Bay in 1943 (top) and 2018 (bottom)
Sutherland Shire maps (accessed 3 March 2020) - detail
Looking around Kamay
Looking around Kamay
Explore the virtual reality video of Kamay Botany Bay
Explore the virtual reality video of Kamay Botany Bay
Banksia integrifolia watercolour by Sydney Parkinson from Banks' Florilegium | Botanical Art and Artists
Exploring the landscape
Exploring the landscape
Captain Cook was in Kamay Botany Bay for eight days. During this time he and his men explored the bay, the land, plants, birds and animals. Sydney Parkinson, an artist on the Endeavour, sketched and painted many artworks to represent what they saw. He was working with botanists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander.
Activity
Activity
Click on the link below to take a look at the illustrations that came from the people on the Endeavour.
- Do you recognise any of the plants that have been drawn?
- Why do you think it was important for the British people to illustrate what they saw in Kamay Botany Bay?
In this British Library video, naturalist Sir David Attenborough describes the legacy of botanist Joseph Banks and the excitement of the naturalists on board HMB Endeavour in 1770. [2:07 mins]Transcript available in teacher notes.
Making connections
Making connections
Think, pair, share
Watch these two videos, then consider these questions.
- Is there a place that you have a special connection to?
- How do you feel when you think about this place?
- Why do you think that is?
Aboriginal peoples' connection to the land
Aboriginal peoples' connection to the land
Victor Channell, a Murramarang man, talks about the sharing of stories to tell the history of his people and the importance of recognising Aboriginal connection to the land.
Transcript available in teacher notes.
Murramarang man Shane Carriage talks the fires that Captain Cook would have seen as the Endeavour sailed along the coast towards Kamay Botany Bay.
Transcript available in teacher notes.
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