Royal National Park Royal National Park The Royal National Park is a protected national park that is located in Sutherland Shire in the Australian state of New South Wales, just south of Sydney. The national park is about south of the Sydney central business district near the localities of , , and . It was the third national park in the world (after Yellowstone and Mackinac in the United States). It was founded by Sir John Robertson, Acting Premier of New South Wales,<ref name="environment.gov.au/ahdb/place_id=105893"></ref> and formally proclaimed on 26 April 1879. Its original name was "National Park", but it was renamed in 1955
Belair National Park in January 1892. Another person given partial credit was William Henry Selway of the Field Naturalists' Section of the Royal Society. In 1985, the Belair National Park was declared as a state heritage area under the "South Australian Heritage Act 1978-1980". In 1987, the nearby National Park railway station was closed. The first European people traversed the Belair area in 1837. In 1840, Governor Gawler raised a government farm on which sick horses and bullocks from government departments could be agisted. In 1881, a proposal was put forward for small agricultural holdings and also, the national park was dedicated, making