Map of Southern Sydney

Use the arrows to navigate to the next section of the Sydney Map. The map shows southern Sydney including Botany Bay and Kurnell. The Map shows an area of around 15km x 10 Km

Botany Bay and Kurnell -Captain Cook's First landing Point

The section of the Sydney Map shows Botany Bay and Kurnell which was the original landing point where Captain James Cook first set foot in Australia. Cook sailed into Botany Bay on the 29th April 1770 and moored his ship the Endeavour off the area now known as Kurnell. The map is marked 'Jetty' just at about this first mooring point.

Botany Bay National Park

The Botany Bay National park has been created on the Kurnell promontory and has several walking tracks, a discovery centre and many monuments to the original landings and meetings of Australia aboriginal and European cultures. There is also the Laperouse Museum which is dedicated to the French explorer Laperouse who landed in Australia in 1788.

Unsurprisingly Cook and Laperouse are frequently used for names of suburbs, roads, parks, rivers etc in Sydney.

The Map of South Sydney Australia is linked to a total of 16 maps covering the Greater Sydney area which extends from Pittwater in the North through to the base of The Blue Mountains in the west and south to The Royal National Park.

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