 It is a place where botanist Sir Joseph Banks and naturalist Dr Daniel Solander collected plant specimens in 1770 as part of the first landing of the "Endeavour" in Australia.Banks and Solander collected many iconic Australian plant species, including some that later became type-specimens which have important scientific and research value.Botany Bay lies within a small tectonic depression known as the Botany Basin which in turn is situated within the larger Sydney Basin comprising modified sedimentary deposits laid down about 270 million years ago during the Permian period.