List of impact craters in Australia
Impact craters - confirmed
Table:
Name	State	Diameter ( km )	Age ( years )

Acraman	South Australia	90	about 590 million

Amelia Creek	Northern Territory	20	1660 - 600 million

Boxhole	Northern Territory	0.17	5,400 ± 1,500

Connolly Basin	Western Australia	9	< 60 million

Crawford	South Australia	8.5	> 35 million

Dalgaranga	Western Australia	0.02	about 3000

Flaxman	South Australia	10	> 35 million

Foelsche	Northern Territory	6	> 545 million

Glikson	Western Australia	19	< 508 million

Goat Paddock	Western Australia	5	< 50 million

Gosses Bluff	Northern Territory	22	142.5 ± 0.8 million

Goyder	Northern Territory	3	< 1.4 billion

Henbury	Northern Territory	0.16	4200 ± 1900

Kelly West	Northern Territory	10	> 550 million

Lawn Hill	Queensland	18	> 515 million

Liverpool	Northern Territory	1.6	1000 - 543 million

Matt Wilson	Northern Territory	7.5	< 1402 ± 440 million

Mount Toondina	South Australia	4	< 110 million

Piccaninny	Western Australia	7	< 360 million

Shoemaker ( formerly Teague )	Western Australia	30	Proterozoic

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Acraman crater is a deeply eroded impact crater in the Gawler Ranges of South Australia . Its location is marked by Lake Acraman , a circular ephemeral playa lake about 20 kilometres ( 12 mi ) in diameter . The discovery of the crater and independent discovery of its ejecta were first reported in the journal Science in 1986 . The evidence for impact includes the presence of shatter cones and shocked quartz in shattered bedrock on islands within Lake Acraman . The crater is deeply eroded and its original size must be inferred by indirect means . Some authors estimate an original diameter of up to 85 to 90 kilometres ( 53 to 56 mi ) , while other suggest a smaller size , perhaps only 35 to 40 kilometres ( 22 to 25 mi ) , closer to that of the depression in which Lake Acraman is centred . The larger size estimate would imply an energy release of 5.2 × 106 megatons of TNT . The impact event is estimated to have occurred about 580 million years ago during the Ediacaran ; this age is not derived from the crater itself but from the position of ejecta within nearby sedimentary basins . The Lake Acraman Impact Structure is listed on the South Australian Heritage Register .
South Australia ( abbreviated as SA ) is a state in the southern central part of Australia . It covers some of the most arid parts of the country . With a total land area of 983,482 square kilometres ( 379,725 sq mi ) , it is the fourth-largest of Australia 's states and territories by area , and fifth largest by population . It has a total of 1.7 million people , and its population is the second most highly centralised in Australia , after Western Australia , with more than 77 percent of South Australians living in the capital , Adelaide , or its environs . Other population centres in the state are relatively small ; Mount Gambier , the second largest centre , has a population of 28,684 . South Australia shares borders with all of the other mainland states , and with the Northern Territory ; it is bordered to the west by Western Australia , to the north by the Northern Territory , to the north-east by Queensland , to the east by New South Wales , to the south-east by Victoria , and to the south by the Great Australian Bight . The state comprises less than 8 percent of the Australian population and ranks fifth in population among the six states and two territories . The majority of its people reside in greater Metropolitan Adelaide . Most of the remainder are settled in fertile areas along the south-eastern coast and River Murray . The state 's colonial origins are unique in Australia as a freely settled , planned British province , rather than as a convict settlement . Colonial government commenced on 28 December 1836 , when the members of the council were sworn in near the Old Gum Tree . [ citation needed ] As with the rest of the continent , the region has a long history of human occupation by numerous tribes and languages .
Amelia Creek crater is an impact structure ( or astrobleme ) , the eroded remnant of a former impact crater , located in the Davenport Range , Northern Territory , Australia . It lies within a low range of Paleoproterozoic sedimentary and volcanic rocks , which are extensively folded and faulted , thus making an eroded impact crater difficult to recognize . It was only discovered by the identification of shatter cones near its centre . The central shatter cone locality is surrounded by a 20 by 12 km ( 12.4 by 7.5 mi ) area of anomalous deformation , the asymmetry being possibly related to very oblique impact , but may be at least partly due to the pre-existing structural complexity of the rocks . This deformed zone gives the best estimate for the original size of the crater . Impact took place after folding of the Paleoproterozoic rocks but before deposition of Neoproterozoic and Cambrian rocks which overlie them , thus constraining the impact event to the interval between about 1660 and 600 Ma .
The Northern Territory ( NT ; formally the Northern Territory of Australia ) is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia . It shares borders with Western Australia to the west ( 129th meridian east ) , South Australia to the south ( 26th parallel south ) , and Queensland to the east ( 138th meridian east ) . To the north , the territory looks out to the Timor Sea , the Arafura Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria , including Western New Guinea and other Indonesian islands . The NT covers 1,349,129 square kilometres ( 520,902 sq mi ) , making it the third-largest Australian federal division , and the 11th-largest country subdivision in the world . It is sparsely populated , with a population of only 245,800 , fewer than half as many people as Tasmania . The archaeological history of the Northern Territory begins over 40,000 years ago when Indigenous Australians settled the region . Makassan traders began trading with the indigenous people of the Northern Territory for trepang from at least the 18th century onwards . The coast of the territory was first seen by Europeans in the 17th century . The British were the first Europeans to attempt to settle the coastal regions . After three failed attempts to establish a settlement ( 1824-28 , 1838-49 , and 1864-66 ) , success was achieved in 1869 with the establishment of a settlement at Port Darwin . Today the economy is based on tourism , especially Kakadu National Park in the Top End and the Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park ( Ayers Rock ) in central Australia , and mining . The capital and largest city is Darwin .
Boxhole is a young impact crater located approximately 180 km ( 265 km by road ) north-east of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory , Australia . It is 170 metres in diameter and its age is estimated to be 5,400 ± 1,500 years based on the cosmogenic 14C terrestrial age of the meteorite , placing it in the Holocene . The crater is exposed to the surface .
Connolly Basin is a 9 km-diameter impact crater located in the Gibson Desert of central Western Australia . It lies adjacent to the Talawana Track 45 km west of the junction ( Windy Corner ) with the Gary Highway , but is difficult to access due to the remoteness of the area . It was originally thought to be a diapir ( salt dome ) ; an impact origin was first proposed in 1985. ,
Western Australia [ a ] ( abbreviated as WA ) is a state occupying the entire western third of Australia . It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west , and the Southern Ocean to the south , [ b ] the Northern Territory to the north-east , and South Australia to the south-east . Western Australia is Australia 's largest state , with a total land area of 2,529,875 square kilometres ( 976,790 sq mi ) , and the second-largest country subdivision in the world , surpassed only by Russia 's Sakha Republic . The state has about 2.6 million inhabitants - around 11 percent of the national total - of whom the vast majority ( 92 per cent ) live in the south-west corner , 79 per cent of the population living in the Perth area , leaving the remainder of the state sparsely populated . The first European visitor to Western Australia was the Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog , who visited the Western Australian coast in 1616 . The first European settlement of Western Australia occurred following the landing by Major Edmund Lockyer on 26 December 1826 of an expedition on behalf of the New South Wales colonial government . He established a convict-supported military garrison at King George III Sound , at present-day Albany , and on 21 January 1827 formally took possession of the western third of the continent for the British Crown . This was followed by the establishment of the Swan River Colony in 1829 , including the site of the present-day capital , Perth . York was the first inland settlement in Western Australia . Situated 97 kilometres ( 60 miles ) east of Perth , it was settled on 16 September 1831 . Western Australia achieved responsible government in 1890 and federated with the other British colonies in Australia in 1901 . Today , its economy mainly relies on mining , oil and gas , services and construction .
Crawford is an impact crater near Adelaide in South Australia , Australia . It is 8.5 km in diameter and the age is estimated to be greater than 35 million years ( probably Eocene ) . The crater is exposed at the surface .
Dalgaranga crater is a small meteorite impact crater located on Dalgaranga pastoral station 75 km northwest of Mount Magnet ( or north of Yalgoo ) in Western Australia . It is only 24 m in diameter and 3 m deep , making it Australia 's smallest impact crater ( with exception of the smallest members of the Henbury crater field ) . Though discovered in 1921 , it was not reported in the scientific literature until 1938 . The bedrock at the site is weathered Archaean granite of the Yilgarn Craton . The discovery of fragments of mesosiderite stony-iron meteorite around the crater confirms an impact origin , making this crater unique as the only one known to have been produced by a mesosiderite projectile .
Flaxman is a meteorite crater in South Australia , Australia . It is 10 km in diameter and the age is estimated to be greater than 35 million years ( probably Eocene ) . The crater is exposed at the surface .
Foelsche is a partly buried impact structure ( or astrobleme ) , the eroded remnant of a former impact crater . It is situated about 85 km southeast of Borroloola in the Northern Territory , Australia , and named after the nearby Foelsche River . Although little of it is exposed at the surface , and no crater shaped topography is evident , the circular nature of the feature is obvious on aeromagnetic images , a factor that led to its discovery .
Glikson crater is an impact structure ( or astrobleme ) , the eroded remnant of a former impact crater , situated in the Little Sandy Desert of central Western Australia . A possible impact structure was first reported in 1997 , and named after Australian geologist A. Y. Glikson , attention to the site being drawn by the presence of a prominent 14 km diameter ring-shaped aeromagnetic anomaly . The area within the ring contains sparse outcrop of uplifted and deformed Neoproterozoic sandstone , but is largely covered by sand dunes . The recent discovery of shatter cones and microscopic shock effects is reliable evidence for an impact origin . Deformation of the sandstone consistent with an impact origin extends out to a diameter of 19 km , which is the best estimate for the original diameter of the original crater . The ring-shaped aeromagnetic anomaly was probably caused by disruption of a horizontal layer of magnetic igneous rock , known as a sill , by the impact event . Nearby outcrops of dolerite have been dated at 508 ± 5 Ma ( Middle Cambrian ) , and if this is the same rock causing the aeromagnetic anomaly , then the impact must be younger , probably of Paleozoic age .
Goat Paddock is a 5 km-diameter near-circular bowl-shaped depression in a range of gently dipping Proterozoic sandstone in the Kimberley Region of northern Western Australia , 106 km west-southwest of Halls Creek . It is interpreted as an ancient meteorite impact crater , the evidence including breccia containing melted rocks , silica glass , shatter cones and shocked quartz . Drilling shows that the crater is filled with about 200 m of ancient lake sediments containing Early Eocene pollen , this age thus giving a minimum estimate for the age of the crater itself . The crater is not perfectly circular , but slightly elongated in a north-south direction , suggesting that the projectile struck at low angle from either the north or south .
Gosses Bluff ( or Gosse 's Bluff ) is thought to be the eroded remnant of an impact crater . Known as Tnorala to the Western Arrente people of the surrounding region , it is located in the southern Northern Territory , near the centre of Australia , about 175 km ( 109 mi ) west of Alice Springs and about 212 km ( 132 mi ) to the northeast of Uluru ( Ayers Rock ) . It was named by Ernest Giles in 1872 after Australian explorer William Gosse 's brother Henry , who was a member of William 's expedition .
Goyder is an impact structure ( or astrobleme ) , the eroded remnant of a former impact crater . It is situated in Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory , Australia , and was named after the nearby Goyder River . The impact occurred into Mesoproterozoic sedimentary rocks of the McArthur Basin . The deformed area is exposed at the surface and marked by a 3 km diameter ring of fractured and faulted sandstone , which is interpreted as the eroded relic of a central uplift ( material that rebounded within the crater to once form a central peak ) ; the original crater rim , long since removed by erosion , being estimated at approximately 9-12 km diameter . Evidence for an impact origin includes the presence of shatter cones and shocked quartz in outcrops of deformed sandstone at the center of the site .
Henbury Meteorites Conservation Reserve is a protected area in the Northern Territory of Australia located in the locality of Ghan . Henbury craters are a result of one of the few impact events that have occurred in a populated area ( few other examples are Kaali crater in Estonia and 2007 Carancas impact event in Peru ) .
Kelly West is a deeply eroded impact crater situated in the central Northern Territory , Australia . It was discovered during Government geological mapping and first reported in 1973 , the evidence for impact coming principally from an abundance of shatter cones at the site .
Lawn Hill crater refers to an impact structure , the eroded remnant of a former impact crater , situated approximately 220 km north-north-west of Mount Isa in northwestern Queensland , Australia . The site is marked by an 18 km diameter ring of dolomite hills . The origin of this circular feature was uncertain until the discovery of shatter cones and shocked quartz from uplifted rocks at the centre was reported in 1987 .
Queensland ( locally /ˈkwiːnzlænd/ KWEENZ-land , [ note 1 ] abbreviated as Qld ) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia . Situated in the north-east of the country , it is bordered by the Northern Territory , South Australia and New South Wales to the west , south-west and south respectively . To the east , Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean . To its north is the Torres Strait , with Papua New Guinea located less than 200 km across it from the mainland . The state is the world 's sixth-largest sub-national entity , with an area of 1,852,642 square kilometres ( 715,309 sq mi ) . As of 15 May 2018 , Queensland had a population of 5,000,000 , concentrated along the coast and particularly in the state 's South East . The capital and largest city in the state is Brisbane , Australia 's third-largest city . Often referred to as the Sunshine State , Queensland is home to 10 of Australia 's 30 largest cities and is the nation 's third-largest economy . Tourism in the state , fuelled largely by its warm climate , is a major industry . Queensland was first inhabited by Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders . The first European to land in Queensland ( and Australia ) was Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon in 1606 , who explored the west coast of the Cape York Peninsula near present-day Weipa . In 1770 , Lieutenant James Cook claimed the east coast of Australia for the Kingdom of Great Britain .
Liverpool is a meteorite impact crater situated in Arnhem Land within the Northern Territory , Australia . It was named after the nearby Liverpool River . Liverpool is remote and difficult to access . The crater has a raised , near-circular rim averaging about 1.6 km in diameter . It was first noticed by geologists during reconnaissance geological mapping in the 1960s , and although an impact origin was considered possible , this was not confirmed until a more detailed study was undertaken in 1970 .
Matt Wilson is a recently [ when ? ] confirmed impact crater , elliptical in shape and situated in Gregory National Park about 17 kilometres ( 11 mi ) north of the Victoria River Roadhouse in the Northern Territory , Australia . Its size is 7.5 by 6.3 kilometres ( 4.7 mi × 3.9 mi ) , with its long axis trending northeast-southwest .
Mount Toondina crater is an impact structure ( or astrobleme ) , the eroded remnant of a former impact crater , located in northern South Australia in the locality of Allandale Station about 24 km ( 15 mi ) south of the town of Oodnadatta . Mount Toondina is the high point of a circular topographic feature rising out of an otherwise relatively flat desert area of the Eromanga Basin . An impact origin was first suggested in 1976 , challenging the earlier diapir ( salt dome ) hypothesis , and strongly supported by subsequent studies . A geophysical survey using gravity methods indicates an internal structure typical of complex impact craters , including an uplifted centre , and suggests that the original crater was about 3-4 km in diameter . The crater must be younger than the Early Cretaceous age of the rocks in which it is situated , but otherwise is not well dated . It has clearly undergone significant erosion since the impact event .
Piccaninny crater is an impact structure , the eroded remnant of a former impact crater , situated in northern Western Australia in the Kimberley region . It was named after Piccaninny Creek and lies within the Purnululu ( Bungle Bungle ) National Park .
Shoemaker ( formerly known as Teague Ring ) is an impact structure , the deeply eroded remnant of a former impact crater , situated in arid central Western Australia , about 100 km ( 62 mi ) north-northeast of Wiluna . It is named in honour of planetary geologist Eugene Shoemaker .