Wolfe Creek Crater National Park

On the edge of the Great Sandy Desert, and the extensive spinifex grasslands of the East Kimberley, lies the Wolfe Creek meteorite crater. Its the second largest crater in the world, from which fragments of a meteorite have been collected.

The Aboriginal Dreaming tells of two rainbow snakes who formed the nearby Sturt and Wolfe Creeks as they crossed the desert. The crater is believed to be the place where one snake emerged from the ground.

The crater is 880m across and almost circular. Today, the floor is about 60m below the rim and is generally flat, but rises slightly in the centre.

The park is 145km from Halls Creek via the Tanami Road and access road, (only accessible to conventional vehicles during the dry season, May to October). Allow 2-3 hours trave time from Halls Creek.

The movie 'Wolf Creek', released in 2005, has given Wolfe Creek a somewhat infamous reputation but was a purely fictional story loosely modelled on a number of true situations.