La Perouse

Frenchmens Bay or Frenchmens Garden
So named for the place where the French established a camp in 1788. Now the Sydney suburb of La Perouse.

Alec H. Chisholm, The Australian Encyclopaedia : in ten volumes, Sydney, 1963, vol.5, p.241.

Long Bay
Now the Sydney suburb of Malabar named after a ship that was wrecked in 1931 in Maroubra Bay.

Anderson, Ken, Sydney's Suburbs How and why they were named, Kenthurst, 1989, p.53.


Point de La Perouse
A forgotten name for Bare Island in the Sydney suburb of La Perouse.

Clancy, Robert, The Mapping of Terra Australis, Sydney, 1995, p.145.


Sting-Rays Harbour
Cook's first name for Botany Bay.

Alec H. Chisholm, The Australian Encyclopaedia : in ten volumes, Sydney, 1963, vol.2, p.59.