Captain Cook in New South Wales The Mystery of Naming Botany Bay

Though that side happened to be that chosen for the New South Wales

early settlement, yet the people of South Australia, Western Australia,

Queensland, New Zealand, and Tasmania, with its emigrating offspring of

Port Phillip--now Victoria--lands first seen by Hollanders a century or

more before Cook was born, have the like reverence as those of Sydney

for the indirect cause of British extension in those Southern Colonies.