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Wolfe Creek Metorite Crater - WA
PlaceID
78017
Latitude
19.17444º S 19º 10' 27.99" S
Longitude
127.7889º E 127º 47' 20.05" E
Altitude
352
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Description of Wolfe Creek Metorite Crater
The Wolfe Creek Meteorite crater was formed when an enormous meteorite, weighing more than 50,000 tonnes and travelling at 15 kilometres per second crashed to earth 300,000 years ago.
The crater is 800 metres wide and is thought to have been about 120 metres deep when newly formed, but it has filled in over time and is now about 55 metres below the top of the surrounding rim
There is a basic
camping
area with several drop toilets.
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Weather & Climate for Wolfe Creek Metorite Crater
Closest Weather Station
Halls Creek at 03:00 14 Oct WST
Distance from Wolfe Creek Metorite Crater 105.86km N
Temperature
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Dew Point
Pressure
Rainfall
Wind Direction
Wind Speed
Gusts
22.9°C
18.9°C
12%
-7.4°C
1012.7hPa
1009.5mm
SW
6km/h
3knots
7km/h
4knots
Closest Climatic Station
Halls Creek Airport
Distance from Wolfe Creek Metorite Crater 105.86km N
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Mean Max. °C
36.7
35.7
35.4
33.8
30.0
27.3
27.2
30.0
34.0
37.2
38.4
37.9
Mean Min. °C
24.3
23.7
22.8
20.4
16.8
13.7
12.6
14.8
18.9
22.7
24.5
24.7
Mean Rain mm
153.2
142.1
78.3
20.6
12.6
5.1
5.6
2.0
4.5
17.2
36.8
81.4
What Others Say about Wolfe Creek Metorite Crater
Monday, 28 January 2008 Tol
Certainly worth the 23 km drive in especially if treking either the Tamani Rd or the CSR. Basic bus...
Certainly worth the 23 km drive in especially if treking either the Tamani Rd or the CSR. Basic bush camp site, with great sunsets and brillant night sky line. Excellent information posted about the crater. You are able to walk the rim and /or scramble down into it's center. One of those places you appreciate having experienced.
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Tuesday, 18 December 2007 Garbutt
Hardly worth the effort on a corrugated track, didn't think much of it.
Thursday, 18 October 2007 regivy
Although only a short trip off the Tanami road ( about 23km ) the track is rarely graded and can be ...
Although only a short trip off the Tanami road ( about 23km ) the track is rarely graded and can be very badly corrugated. Towing a tandem axle off-road van, we took an hour for the trip. That's slower than the Drysdale River/Kalumbaru road. Well worth it though.
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Thursday, 18 October 2007 barney rubble
Worth the effort to have a look. Great swimming hole about 60km in from halls creek end its the only...
Worth the effort to have a look. Great swimming hole about 60km in from halls creek end its the only one with water across the road all year
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Treks passing Wolfe Creek Metorite Crater
The Tanami Track
The Tanami Track is essentially a great short-cut linking the Red Centre to the Kimberley. Although once a notorious 4WD track, it is now a graded dirt highway.
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Wolfe Creek
[0.92km]
Wolfe Creek was named after Robert Tennant Stowe Wolfe, a digger and storekeeper who lived in Halls Creek in the late 1880s. Apparently the crater was created by a meterorite around 2 millions years ago.The erosion of the crater has been slow because of the dryness in the area.
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