BOTANY BAY - IMO : 6907016

Built 1969, by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft, Hamburg, Germany (Yard # 1001) as BOTANY BAY

GRT : 26879 / DWT : 29262

Overall Length : 227.3 metres x Beam 30.6 metres.

Machinery : 1 Screw driven by 2 STAL-LAVAL steam turbines both connected t the single shaft with double reduction gearboxes.

Speed : 21.5 knots

History POR = Port of Registry

1969: BOTANY BAY : Furness, Withy & Co Ltd : POR London

1982: BOTANY BAY : Camperdown Shipping Ltd : POR London

•1983: Re-engined the STAL-LAVAL turbines replaced with B & W : 2-stroke single acting 6-cylinder oil engine manufactured by Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding Ltd, Tamano, Japan, work undertaken by Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding Ltd. : New Speed : 19-5 knots

1986: BOTANY BAY : P&O Containers Ltd : POR London

1989: NEDLLOYD TASMAN : P&O Containers Ltd : POR London

1994: BOTANY BAY : P&O Containers Ltd : POR London

1997: BOTANY BAY : P&O Nedlloyd Ltd : POR London

1999: Broken up at Panyu, China

BOTANY BAY photographed 19 October 1980 in Tilbury Docks, London

Ship Details : Miramar / Marine News

VL351, RL302 and VL355 lead a reasonably long container freight away from the port of Botany.

Cryptogamic botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. Discovery ships Erebus and Terror in the years 1839-1843 under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross

London:Printed and published by Reeve Brothers1845

biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15952208

Chrysolopus spectabilis

Family: Curculionidae

Order: Coleoptera

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kirstentacular.blogspot.com/2014/05/botany-bay.html Calico, Fantasy Gacha, Gacha, Glam Affair, Infiniti, Junbug, Nerdology, Sax Shepard Designs, SLink

Curtis's botanical magazine..

London ;New York [etc.] :Academic Press [etc.].

biodiversitylibrary.org/page/470512

[South Sumatra, Indonesia / インドネシアスマトラ島南部]

SECTION Formosae

Distribution: Sumatera (42 SUM)

Lifeform: Pseudobulb epiphyte

Curtis's botanical magazine..

London ;New York [etc.] :Academic Press [etc.].

biodiversitylibrary.org/page/438487

Mounts Botanical Garden in West Palm Beach Florida.

North American wild flowers

Washington, D.C.,Smithsonian Institution,1925 [i.e. 1925-1928]

biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43373921

Goodwin ALCo built 4526 returns to Botany yard after shunting at Port Botany on 29 July 1988.

Banksmeadow NSW Australia

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The botany of Captain Beechey's voyage

London,H. G. Bohn,1841.

biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43638878

Curtis's botanical magazine..

London ;New York [etc.] :Academic Press [etc.].

biodiversitylibrary.org/page/432223

slicesoflifesl.wordpress.com/2014/05/16/botany-bay/

maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Botany%20Bay/9/212/22

Flore médicale des Antilles, ou, Traité des plantes usuelles :.

Paris :Pichard,1821-1829..

biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3587447

Gartenflora.

Erlangen :F. Enke,1852-1940.

biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40101746

Drone show with the Mavic

Gartenflora.

Erlangen :F. Enke,1852-1940.

biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40134816

Botany Bay, by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall

Pyramid X-1091, 1964

Cover art by Chuck McVicker

American journal of botany

Lancaster, Pa. :Published in cooperation with the Botanical Society of America by the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens,1914-

biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47189324

Illustrations of medical botany

archive.org/details/mobot31753000793254

1105/1101 QUBE Port Botany 20131203

M kobus x stellata

Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid (Spain) - Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid (España)

168518

Histoire des plantes de la Guiane Françoise, rangées suivant la méthode sexuelle, avec plusieurs mémoires sur différens objets intéressans, relatifs à la culture & au commerce de la Guiane Françoise, & une notice des plantes de l'Isle-de-France ...

Londres,P.F. Didot jeune,1775.

biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41859492

Plantarum indigenarum et exoticarum icones ad vivum coloratae, oder, Sammlung nach der Natur gemalter Abbildungen inn- und ausländlischer Pflanzen, für Liebhaber und Beflissene der Botanik /.

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biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44261143

Mavic, capturing from up high

Chrysolopus spectabilis

Family: Curculionidae

Order: Coleoptera

This striking weevil has the distinction of being the first insect described by the botanists on Captain Cooks first voyage to Australia.

It feeds on 28 species of Acacia. In this case it was found on Hamilton's Wattle, Acacia hamiltoniana .

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Pulling a rake of containers out of the Patrick terminal at Port Botany.

Curtis's botanical magazine..

London ; New York [etc.] :Academic Press [etc.].

biodiversitylibrary.org/page/470061

More pics soon.

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