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Captain Cook's Landing Place, Sydney

Botany Bay's Inscription Point where Captain Cook and his crew on the HMS Endeavour first landed in 1770 is a heritage-listed site.

Botany Bay's Inscription Point where Captain Cook and his crew on the HMS Endeavour first landed in 1770 is a heritage-listed site. They stayed in the area for 8 days before continuing northwards. Located near Silver Beach on the Kurnell Peninsula headland, the site can be reached via the Burrawang Walk from the Kurnell Visitor Centre in Kamay Botany Bay National Park. The path features a soundscape of Aboriginal children's laughter, and goes through historic sites such as ✓the welcome wall, ✓a water course from which Captain Cook obtained water, ✓the meeting place of Europeans and Aborigines of the Goorawal People and the Gweagal People, ✓Joseph Banks' Memorial, ✓monument to Forby Sutherland - the first British person to die in Australia, and ✓Ferry Shelter Shed on the way to the Captain Cook's Landing Place, which is marked by the commemorative Obelisk of 1870.


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About Captain Cook's Landing Place

 Monument Track, Kurnell NSW 2231, Australia

 +61 2 9668 2000

 www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au

Captain Cook's Landing Place and Nearby Sights on Map

Silver Beach

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