EXPEDITIONS · 1770
Kurnell, Botany Bay, Australia
Cook first called it Stingray Bay. The meeting with the Gweagal people is remembered today as the start of a long and painful history for Aboriginal Australians.
The story, as a puzzle
First steps on the east coast.
On 29 April 1770, a British crew made its first landing on Australia’s east coast here, watched by Gweagal men on the shore. The botanists aboard collected so many plants that the bay was named after them. Pin the landing place.
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