Meg wray cv 1. PastedGraphic-1. Cooks River - Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust - Sydney, Australia. Original vegetation communities in the Cooks River Valley.
Cooks River runs into the northern side of Botany Bay. It is shown on Cook's map, evidence that he explored it for some distance, but it was not until the First Fleet's brief stay in 1788 that Governor Phillip and some of the officers explored the River at the NW side of the bay which we went up for about 6 miles, finding the Country low & boggy, & no appearance of fresh water ... Cooks River/ Castlereagh Ironbark Forest. Atlas of Living Australia.