Editing Mount Remarkable National Park (section)

==History==
Land associated with the Park at [[Mambray Creek]] and Alligator Gorge first obtained protected area status in 1952 as 'national pleasure resorts' declared under the then ''National Pleasure Resorts Act 1914''. They were managed by the South Australian Government Tourist Bureau from 1952 to 1967.<ref name="DEH-2006" />{{rp|page=40}}

In 1964, the National Parks Commission submitted a proposal to the [[Government of South Australia]] for "comprehensive national parks" covering an area larger than that of the existing national pleasure resorts. This resulted in the creation of three separate reserves - the Alligator Gorge Wildlife Reserve, the Mambray Creek Wildlife Reserve and the Mount Remarkable Wildlife Reserve, that were respectively constituted in July 1965, September 1967 and March 1966.<ref name="DEH-2006" />{{rp|page=40}}

In 1972, the three wildlife reserves were re-proclaimed under the ''[[National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972]]'' as the Mount Remarkable National Park. Between 1972 and 1993, the park doubled in size from an area of {{convert|8236|ha|abbr=on}} by the addition of land including the Black Range Lookout and the Bluff in 1976, and by the addition of an "area west of Alligator Gorge containing The Battery", two parts of the Willowie Forest Reserve, and the Napperby Block in 1993.<ref name="DEH-2006" />{{rp|page=40}} The Napperby Block consists of {{convert|16.72|km2|abbr=on}} of land, and is non-contiguous to the park. Instead, it is located on the other (southern) side of the Telowie Gorge Conservation Park, immediately east of the town of [[Napperby, South Australia|Napperby]], about {{convert|4|km|abbr=on}} south of Telowie Gorge and about {{convert|12|km|abbr=on}} north-east of the city of [[Port Pirie, South Australia|Port Pirie]].<ref name="DEH-2006" />{{rp|pages=1-2}}

In 2000, further land was added to the park, which was subsequently named The Warren Bonython Link in honour of [[Warren Bonython]]’s "long personal interest in the area" and "his association with the National Parks Foundation".<ref name="DEH-2006" />{{rp|page=41}} The park had a total area of {{convert|18271|ha|abbr=on}} after this addition.<ref name="ReserveList" />

On 26 November 2021, the Napperby Block was combined with the former [[Telowie Gorge Conservation Park]], [[Wirrabara Range Conservation Park]] and Spaniards Gully Conservation to form the [[Wapma Thura–Southern Flinders Ranges National Park]].<ref name="cpc">{{cite press release |title=SA now home to Australia’s biggest national park |publisher=[[Premier of South Australia]] |first=David |last=Speirs |author-link=David Speirs |date=26 November 2021 |url=https://www.premier.sa.gov.au/news/media-releases/news/south-australia-now-home-to-australias-biggest-national-park |url-status=dead |access-date=22 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211219021015/https://www.premier.sa.gov.au/news/media-releases/news/south-australia-now-home-to-australias-biggest-national-park |archive-date=19 December 2021 }} [[File:CC-BY icon.svg|50px]] Text may have been copied from this source, which is available under a [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/ Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC BY 3.0 AU)] licence.</ref>