![]() Tours to Wolfe Creek Crater National Park The Wolfe Creek Crater access road travels through Carranya Station and is unsealed corrugated road through Carranya Station. The Crater is located south of Halls Creek along the Tanami Road in flat and arid country. In 1976 protection of the area was upgraded to the status of Class A Reserve. In 1969 Wolfe Creek Crater was gazetted as a C class reserve. Geologists F Reeves and D Hart were the first non-Aboriginal people to come across this striking natural feature while conducting an aerial survey of the Canning Basin in 1947. Scientists believe Wolfe Creek was formed by the impact of a meteorite as long as 300,000 years ago. Aboriginal people understand many natural features, such as rivers and creeks, are the tracks left by giant ancestral snakes that once weaved their way across the desert. Traditional Owners believe this circular crater was formed when a giant mythological snake raised its head from the ground back long ago at the time of creation. The crater is known as Janyil in Jaru and as Karntimarlarl in Walmajarri. The outer edges slope at a gradual 15 degrees, but the much steeper inner walls fall away at about a 50 degree angle. The ridge of the crater stands about 35 metres above the surrounding flat sand plain. This is the second largest meteorite crater on Earth. Climbing down into the crater is not permitted because the steep terrain and loose rocks make it dangerous. Viewing the crater rim is a must - it's a 200 metre return walk to the top of the crater rim, involving a steep rocky climb. Sightseeing, walking, photography and nature observation are the most popular activities. Wolfe Creek Crater is the second-largest crater in the world from which fragments of a meteorite have been collected, measuring 880m across and to a depth of about 60m. One of Australia's most remarkable outback landscapes, the massive Wolfe Creek Crater National Park lies on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert in the Kimberley.
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