Development of Botany Bay as a second seaport for Sydney

Abstract

Summary Botany Bay, the site of Captain Cook's first landfall, is currently being developed for seaport and industrial purposes. The specialized facilities and installations constructed on both the northern and southern foreshores of the Bay deal with bulk cargoes, crude oil, chemicals and petroleum products; the northern foreshores also provide specialized wharfage for the overseas container trade on a large scale. This specialized wharfage supplements earlier twentieth‐century constructions in the Port of Sydney and extends the scale of the modern Botany Bay seaport‐industrial complex which has been developed from the 1950s. It is intended that the entire project will be completed by the year 2000. When the new port development and industrial complex is fully realized, the Sydney region could well experience a further era of massive urban growth and construction. This would be accompanied by concomitant intensification and change of land‐uses in the Botany Region itself. It is suggested that the measure...