 James Cook and crew made their first landing on the continent, at a place now known as Botany Bay, on Kurnell Peninsula and made contact of a hostile nature with the Gweagal Aborigines, on 29 April.At first Cook bestowed the name "Sting-Ray Harbour" to the inlet after the many such creatures found there; this was later changed to "Botanist Bay" and finally "Botany Bay" after the unique specimens retrieved by the botanists Joseph Banks, Daniel Solander and Herman Spöring.This first landing site was later to be promoted (particularly by Joseph Banks) as a suitable candidate for situating a settlement and British colonial outpost.