Footbridge To Bare Island

by Miroslava Jurcik

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Footbridge To Bare Island

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Miroslava Jurcik

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The Endeavour arrived at Botany Bay on 29 April 1770 and stayed for eight days.
Captain Cook described it as “a bare little island” when he discovered Botany Bay. He said it provided a convenient navigational marker. The name stuck from this first usage. As such the name is one of the first European names for a part of the east coast.
Banks and Solander collected a large amount of material including seeds, 132 plant species, shells, and insects from the areas we now know as Kurnell Peninsula, Towra Point, La Perouse Headland and Bare Island. A collection of Indigenous objects is also noted in the historic records relating to the Endeavour landing.
The scientific crew included a number of artists and draughtsmen including botanical and landscape artist Sydney Parkinson who produced botanical, zoological and ethnographic drawings. It represent the earliest example of scientific investigations on the east coast of Australia.
Cook originally named Botany Bay ‘Stingrays Harbour’ or ‘Stingrays Bay’ in recognition of the large number of stingrays caught and eaten by the Endeavour crew. As the significance of the botanical collections became clear, Cook changed the name to ‘Botanist Bay’ in honour of “the great quantity of plants which Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander collected in this place”.
The collected plant specimens, together with the historical and scientific values of the ongoing survival of their descendants across Kamay Botany Bay, form one of the world’s great botanical collections. Banks and Solander’s Australian botanical collection are currently held by the Natural History Museum in England.
Despite the scale of modification to the landscape that has occurred in the Kamay Botany Bay area over more than 200 years, large areas of remnant vegetation still remain in relatively good condition.
Of the 132 plant species collected by Banks and Solander, 114 of these can still be found in-situ in natural populations at a number of locations across Kamay Botany Bay.
The National Heritage listing recognises and protects the places and associated pockets of remnant vegetation where plant collection activities occurred and where their living descendants still remain.
Footbridge to Bare island , Kamay Botany Bay, Sydney, Australia, 2012
Bridge and Ford were first built in 1880s.
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