Wolfe Creek Crater National Park Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
national park in Western Australia
About Wolfe Creek Crater National Park
The Djaru Aboriginal people knew this place asKandimalal, and some of their legends have it as a hole created by the emergence of a rainbow snake, while others tell of the evening star suffering a mishap and crashing to ground. Western science sides with the crashing to ground: it was spotted by aerial survey in 1947, and ground survey soon established that it was a meteor impact crater. It was named for the nearby Wolfe Creek, which commemorates Robert Wolfe a prospector and storekeeper during the Halls Creek gold rush of 1885. It's now thought that the impact was 120,000 years ago, an inter-glacial period when huge hairy mammals began to go extinct and humans had emerged to hasten their demise. The meteor was iron-rich, and 15 m in diameter weighing 14,000 tonnes on impact. (By compariso
Where to Stay in Wolfe Creek Crater National Park
- 🏨Wolfe Creek Campground
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