Cook's Landing Place

Botany Bay National Park

Cook's Landing Place, Monument Track, Botany Bay

At 3:00 pm on the 29th of April, 1770, Captain Cook landed on the foreshores of the southern headland of what was to be called Botany Bay.

Cook's landing place at Kurnell in Botany Bay National Park is protected as a Historic Site.

The Monument Track takes visitors to this and other monuments. The short Banks-Solander Track, a nature trail, gives visitors an insight into the species that Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, Cook's botanists, collected in 1770.

The Discovery Centre in Kurnell houses a small museum with the exhibition 'Eight Days that Changed the World' about the first contact between Aboriginal people and the crew of Captain Cook’s Endeavour. Part of the display is one of the Endeavour cannons.

Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife funds assisted in the redevelopment of this important national historic site, including displays at the discovery centre, interpretive signs, disabled access to the Monument Track and the Caltex sponsored Banks/Solander Walk. Through the Foundation, Caltex also sponsored the transportation and restoration of the Endeavour cannon.