LOCATION FILE
Kandimalal (Wolfe Creek Crater)
FOLLOWHalls Creek, WA
DIRECTIONS →Access is limited. Check hours, permits or bookings before you go.
OVERVIEW
A meteorite crater about 880 metres across in the Great Sandy Desert, formed roughly 300,000 years ago. It is known to the Jaru people as Kandimalal, and their traditional accounts describe two rainbow snakes whose passage formed the nearby creeks, with the crater the place one emerged.
HISTORY
The crater was recorded by Europeans in 1947 during an aerial survey.
REPORTED ACTIVITY
The 2005 film Wolf Creek is FICTION and its events did not happen. It is set at the crater and has shaped the site's reputation almost entirely. The genuine content here is geological and Jaru traditional knowledge.
VISITING
Remote national park, reached by unsealed road; access is seasonal and the road is often closed in the wet. Carry water and fuel.
SITE PLAN
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A plan of the building or grounds is what a second team opens on a phone in the dark. Going there? Volunteer to map it, then upload your plan.
EXTERNAL RESOURCES
Curated references and articles coming soon.
INVESTIGATION RECORD
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