Darwin Crater

Darwin Crater is a suspected meteorite impact crater in Western Tasmania about 26 km (16 mi) south of Queenstown, just within the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park. The crater is expressed as a rimless circular flat-floored depression, 1.2 km (0.75 mi) in diameter, within mountainous and heavily forested terrain. It is east of the West Coast Range and the former North Mount Lyell Railway formation.

Darwin Crater
Tasmania
False-colour Landsat image of Darwin Crater (arrowed); screen capture from NASA World Wind
Darwin Crater
Coordinates42°18′15″S 145°39′27″E
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