Tag: Gosses Bluff Crater

 

Gosses Bluff Crater is the impact site of a comet.  The actual impact crater has long since weathered away.  This site is actually the center of the shock ring.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Evidence of the direction of the comet strike.

Leaving the beaten track, the expedition heads off into the dusty red centre toward Gosses Bluff Crater.

 

 

 

The crater in the distance.

 

The local colorful fable of how the crater was formed.

 

Careful of the buried pipelines!

 

Approaching the impact crater.