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Wolfe Creek Metorite Crater - WA  RatingRatingRatingRating

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PlaceID78017
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Latitude19.17444º S 19º 10' 27.99" S
Longitude127.7889º E 127º 47' 20.05" E
Altitude352
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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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Parking area from top of Rim
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Wolfe Creek Crater
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Entry to Gate at Wolfe Creek
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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
TemperatureFeels LikeRel. HumidityDew PointPressureRainfallWind DirectionWind SpeedGusts
22.9°C 18.9°C 12% -7.4°C 1012.7hPa 1009.5mm SW 6km/h
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7km/h
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Closest Climatic Station

Halls Creek Airport
Distance from Wolfe Creek Metorite Crater 105.86km N
 JanFebMarAprMayJun JulAugSepOctNovDec
Mean Max. °C 36.735.735.433.8 30.027.327.230.0 34.037.238.437.9
Mean Min. °C 24.323.722.820.4 16.813.712.614.8 18.922.724.524.7
Mean Rain mm 153.2142.178.320.6 12.65.15.62.0 4.517.236.881.4

 What Others Say about Wolfe Creek Metorite Crater

  Monday, 28 January 2008   Tol   RatingRatingRatingRating
Certainly worth the 23 km drive in especially if treking either the Tamani Rd or the CSR. Basic bus...
  Tuesday, 18 December 2007   Garbutt   RatingRating
Hardly worth the effort on a corrugated track, didn't think much of it.
  Thursday, 18 October 2007   regivy   RatingRatingRatingRating
Although only a short trip off the Tanami road ( about 23km ) the track is rarely graded and can be ...
  Thursday, 18 October 2007   barney rubble   RatingRatingRatingRating
Worth the effort to have a look. Great swimming hole about 60km in from halls creek end its the only...
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 Treks passing Wolfe Creek Metorite Crater

The Tanami Track 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. [Feature Story]

 Places within 5km of Wolfe Creek Metorite Crater

Wolfe Creek [0.92km]  
Point of Interest 
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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WestPrint Heritage Maps are designed to provide the traveller with a guide to understanding the history and environment through which you travel on outback tracks. This map contains notes on the history of the surveying and building of the CSR by Alfred Canning and the subsequent well reconditioning by Snell.
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The Tanami Track provides the quickest access from the southern states via Alice Springs to the Kimberley.This map details the route through some of the least populated country in Australia and its ever changing arid scenery provides an awesome introduction to the immensity of our deserts.
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