Royal National Park declared in New South Wales (1879)

Sir John Robertson, Acting Premier of New South Wales, formally proclaimed the National Park on 26 April 1879. This protected area, later renamed the Royal National Park, is located in Southern Sydney and the Illawarra region of New South Wales. Its proclamation came seven years after Yellowstone National Park and eleven years before Yosemite National Park in the United States.

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Background. The Royal National Park is a protected national park in the Sutherland Shire local government area in Southern Sydney and in the City of Wollongong local government area in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. The 151-square-kilometre national park is about 29 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district near the localities of Loftus, Otford and Waterfall.

Proclamation. The park was founded by Sir John Robertson, Acting Premier of New South Wales, and formally proclaimed on 26 April 1879. This declaration occurred a mere 7 years after Yellowstone National Park (1872) and 11 years before Yosemite National Park in the United States, establishing it as an early purposed national park.

Geography. Deep below the Hawkesbury sandstone belt lies Narrabeen Shales, a mixture of shale and sandstone containing untapped coal seams. These seams run through Sydney and are mined extensively where they come closer to the surface south of the National Park near Wollongong.

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