Royal National Park
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Date: 2022-01-21

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#1879_establishments_in_Australia
#Sutherland_Shire
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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 and is situated on Dharawal country.
The 151-square-kilometre （58 sq mi） national park is about 29 kilometres （18 mi） south of the Sydney central business district near the localities of Loftus, Otford, and Waterfall.
It is the third oldest national park in the world after Bogd Khan Uul in Mongolia, established in 1783, and Yellowstone in the US, established in 1872.
It was founded by Sir John Robertson, Acting Premier of New South Wales, and formally proclaimed on 26 April 1879.
Its original name was just National Park, but it was renamed in 1955 after Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia passed by in the train during her 1954 tour.
The park was added to the Australian National Heritage List in December 2006.
The park is situated in traditional lands of the Dharawal, an Aboriginal Australian people.
More precisely, the area known today as Royal National Park is the north-eastern section of the country of the Aboriginal language group.
Dharawal country encompasses ocean and estuarine shorelines from Botany Bay to the Shoalhaven River, and forested lands as far west as the Georges River and Appin, and possibly Camden.
The park includes today's settlements of Audley, Maianbar and Bundeena.
There was once a railway line connected to the Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra Line but this closed and was converted to a heritage tramway operated by the Sydney Tramway Museum in Loftus.
Audley can be accessed by road from Loftus, Waterfall or Otford, and there are several railway stations （Loftus, Engadine, Heathcote, Waterfall, Helensburgh and Otford） on th...