View from top of Wolfe Creek Meteorite Crater, Western Australia


Known as Kandimalal to the local Jaru people, it is thought a 50,000 tonne meteor crashed here 300,000 years ago. It is the 2nd-largest crater in the world to have yielded pieces of meteorite.


Size: 4900px × 3543px
Location: Wolfe Creek Meteorite Crater, Halls Creek, Western Australia, Australia
Photo credit: © steve waters / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

Keywords: 2nd, aboriginal, area, arid, attraction, australia, clear, climate, colour, conservation, copy, country, crater, creek, cultural, culture, desert, destination, dirt, dreaming, early, flat, ghost, gravel, gum, halls, heat, horizon, indigenous, isolated, jaru, kandimal, land, landscape, largest, location, meteor, meteorite, morning, orange, outback, outdoors, path, plain, quiet, red, remote, road, rock, rocky, site, sky, space, spinifex, stone, story, tourist, track, tree, unsealed, vegetation, viewpoint, western, wolfe