Kamay Botany Bay National Park
Conservation Management Plan
Community & Stakeholder Engagement Plan
NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service
Kamay / Botany Bay, NSW
Dharawal Country
Kamay is the Indigenous name for Botany Bay.
The James Cook expedition landed here in 1770, claiming Australia for the British Empire, and irrevocably altering the lives and futures of the Aboriginal people of this place. Today, this historically, socially and symbolically important place at Kurnell near Sydney’s southern beaches is known as Kamay Botany Bay National Park.
Within the national park is the Meeting Place Precinct. A place of outstanding national importance, it is the site of the first encounter between Indigenous Australians and the expedition lead by Lieutenant James Cook.
The stories of this encounter have inspired feelings of celebration, shame and everything in between. This place is at the heart of an important process of history-making and sense of identity for Australians.
Context (now GML Heritage) developed a Conservation Management Plan detailing a vision that recognises this powerful story and its many nuances, as well as recognising the complexity and mutability of the values of this place.
In 2020, Context led the community engagement as a Master Plan for Kamay Botany Bay National Park was shaped, and a new Plan of Management for the whole park was written.
