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The southern suburbs of Sydney, arranged around huge Botany Bay , are seen as the heartland of red-tiled-roof suburbia, a terracotta sea spied from above as the planes land at Mascot airport. Clive James, the area's most famous son, describes it as a 1950s suburban wasteland in his tongue-in-cheek Unreliable Memoirs . The popular perception of Botany Bay is coloured by its proximity to an airport, a high-security prison (Long Bay), an oil refinery, a container terminal and a sewerage outlet. Yet the surprisingly clean-looking water (pollution levels are high, however) is fringed by quiet, sandy beaches and the marshlands shelter a profusion of birdlife. Whole areas of the waterfront on either side at La Perouse , with its associations with eighteenth-century French exploration, and on the Kurnell Peninsula where Captain Cook first put anchor, are designated as part of Botany Bay National Park .
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