It is named after Lieutenant Henry Lidgbird Ball, a Royal Naval officer who commanded HMS Supply on the First Fleet.

The park is accessed via Balls Head Drive, Waverton, New South Wales, Australia.

Evidence of their occupation includes art sites, middens and a spectacular petroglyph of a marine creature.

An Aboriginal burial site within a rock shelter was documented by Sandra Bowdler, an archaeologist from the Australian Museum in 1964.

The second of these, 'The Sacrifice of Balls Head' protested against plans to build a coal bunkering depot there in 1916.