meteor craters WA

G'day Ron

Please do not take my reply to your post as a direct criticism of you or your knowledge.

Very sadly public knowledge of the Hickman Meteorite Impact Crater has been pretty much kept quiet in Australia, although the craters existance is real and all scientific data can be accessed on the internet ~ all you or the enquirer needs to know that it actually exists.

People from all walks of life have visited the Crater since its discovery in July of 2007.
There are requirements that need to be applied for and accepted simply because the crater lies in a significant Iron Ore mining tenement.

I visit the Crater several times each month, the changes planned for in the immediate region to the crater are simply frightening and I can only guess that the less you and the rest of the broarder community knows the better it is for the mining industry.

I suggest that you might GoogleHickman Crater and learn about the crater.

Ron, no malice is intended in my reply.

Safe travels :

I agree, Wolf Creek is worth a trip. And when we went there last year it was still in WA!
Great fee camping area there too. Very assessable walk to it and around the rim and if you disregard the sign, to the centre. Just one word of warning! I have heard that people have car troubles there, but if you do, just call Mick. But I hope it is not the same Mick as above?
Kevin

Mwooh ha ha (Evil laugh there!).

G'day Rod W

There is also a fairly well known of little crater not to far out of Cue in Western Australia.
It really isn't as spectacular to the eye as either Wolfe Creek or the Hickman Crater, but it is a bona fide crater, by the name of "dalgaranga".

Safe travels:

I've been to Dalgaranga Meteorite Impact Crater in 2009.

Easy run in.

Click on the link, I've put a couple of pictures up there, as has Doug T.

Cheers
Alan

G'day Alan

Yes indeed its a very easy run to Dalgaranga, but the country side is spectacular especially in the "flower season".

This little crater seems rather insignificant at first sight, but if you know of or care to learn about its origins ~ its quite remarkable really.

Walga Rock and the ancient Wilgie Mia ochre mine were my targets on that particular trip, although a few years ago now and with limited time, Maria and I still managed to stay four days ~ simply exploring.

Safe travels:

Sorry Val
It was a little of what you said but also the many posts I have read about the Tanami Road that made me question the worth of going out of our way. I have adjusted some of our plans since receiving the advice of the more experienced travellers. I think I will still consider WCC and might even do a few others. The information supplied on this thread has been enormous. Thanks everyone.

Mmmmmm..... Now who would be so gullible to buy? Where's the proof that it is. Might be worth thinkin' about if I were broke. A few bob might go a fair way. Nah! I couldn't do it to the poor suckers.

I'm not sure about Dirt Princesses grandies, but most kids nowadays would be pretty underwhelmed by visiting a crater, with most expecting to see something that they've seen in a Hollywood action movie.

I think I'd be more inclined to go hunting for meteorites on the Nullarbor, than go looking at (mostly) greatly weathered craters. The meteorites on the Nullarbor stick out because they're mostly dark basalt, but the Nullarbor is mostly light-coloured limestone.

The Nullarbor is noted for fantastic meteorite finds, with most of the Southern Hemispheres best examples found there. The W.A. Museum has about 500 in their possession, and many haven't yet been fully examined.

The sad part is - you can't collect - or even own - or even pick up a meterorite! (in W.A., anyway). The little known, Museum Act 1969 - Section 45, prohibits all of the above - and you're only entitled to a reward for information leading to the recovery of a meteorite not previously known to the Museum Trustees, or expenses incurred in recovering same.

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/wa/consol_act/ma1969107/s45.html

Cheers - Ron.