This list includes all 27 confirmed impact structures in Australia as listed in the Earth Impact Database.Bevan, Alex. and Ken McNamara (2009) Australia's meteorite craters Welshpool, W. A. : Western Australian Museum, 2nd ed. (pbk.) and other sources provide a contrast in methodology and limitations to the information in the EID
Impact structures - confirmed
Name State Diameter(km) Age (years) CoordinatesAcramanSouth Australia90about 590 million Amelia CreekNorthern Territory201660 - 600 million BoxholeNorthern Territory0.175,400 ± 1,500 Connolly BasinWestern Australia9< 60 million CrawfordSouth Australia8.5> 35 million DalgarangaWestern Australia0.02about 3000 FlaxmanSouth Australia10> 35 million FoelscheNorthern Territory6> 545 million GliksonWestern Australia19< 508 million Goat PaddockWestern Australia5< 50 million Gosses BluffNorthern Territory22142.5 ± 0.8 million GoyderNorthern Territory3< 1.4 billion HenburyNorthern Territory0.164200 ± 1900 Kelly WestNorthern Territory10> 550 million Lawn HillQueensland18> 515 million LiverpoolNorthern Territory1.61000 - 543 million Matt WilsonNorthern Territory7.5< 1402 ± 440 millionMount ToondinaSouth Australia4< 110 million PiccaninnyWestern Australia7< 360 million Shoemaker(formerly Teague)Western Australia30Proterozoic SpiderWestern Australia13> 570 million StrangwaysNorthern Territory25646 ± 42 million TookoonookaQueensland55128 ± 5 million VeeversWestern Australia0.08< 20 thousand Wolfe CreekWestern Australia0.87120,000 WoodleighWestern Australia60–120364 ± 8 million YarrabubbaWestern Australia70> 2 billion Ora BandaWestern Australia5100 million Hickman CraterNewman, Western Australia0.27 10 - 100 thousand Yallalie Impact StructureDandaragan, Western Australia12 80-90 Million
Unconfirmed impact structures
The following structures are officially considered "unconfirmed" because they are not listed in the Earth Impact Database. Due to stringent requirements regarding evidence and peer-reviewed publication, newly discovered craters or those with difficulty collecting evidence generally are known for some time before becoming listed. However, entries on the unconfirmed list could still have an impact origin disproven.
NameStateDiameter(km)AgeCoordinatesBedoutBecker, L., Poreda, R.J., Basu, A.R., Pope, K.O., Harrison, T.M., Nicholson, C., and Iasky, R., 2004. Bedout: a possible end-Permian impact crater offshore of northwestern Australia. Science, 304(5676), pp.1469-1476.French, B.M., and Koeberl, C., 2010. The convincing identification of terrestrial meteorite impact structures: What works, what doesn't, and why. Earth-Science Reviews, 98(1-2), pp.123-170.Indian Ocean, Western Australia200 250 million Darwin CraterHoward, K.T., and Haines, P.W., 2007. The geology of Darwin crater, western Tasmania, Australia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 260(1-2), pp.328-339.Tasmania1.2 800 thousand Deniliquin multiple-ring featureGlikson, A.Y., and Yeates, A.N., 2022. Geophysics and origin of the Deniliquin multiple-ring feature, Southeast Australia. Tectonophysics, 837, no.229454.Southeast Australia520 445-444 million, Hirnantian mass extinction eventGlikson, A.Y., 2023. An asteroid impact origin of the Hirnantian (end-Ordovician) glaciation and mass extinction. Gondwana Research, 118, pp.153-159. Diamantina River ring featureGlikson, A., Korsch, R.J., and Milligan, P., 2016. The Diamantina River ring feature, Winton region, western Queensland. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 63(5), pp.653-663.Upper Diamantina River, Queensland130 300 million East Warburton BasinGlikson, A.Y., Uysal, I.T., Gerald, J.D.F. and Saygin, E., 2013. Geophysical anomalies and quartz microstructures, Eastern Warburton Basin, North-east South Australia: Tectonic or impact shock metamorphic origin? . Tectonophysics, 589, pp.57-76.South Australia200 World's largest asteroid impact zone found in Australia: Meteorite broke in two, leaving two craters each 200 km across. Mar 24, 2015about 300-360 million West Warburton BasinGlikson, A.Y., Meixner, A.J., Radke, B., Uysal, I.T., Saygin, E., Vickers, J. and Mernagh, T.P., 2015. Geophysical anomalies and quartz deformation of the Warburton West structure, central Australia. Tectonophysics, 643, pp.55-72.South Australia200 about 300-360 million GnargooIasky, R.P. and Glikson, A.Y., 2005. Gnargoo: a possible 75 km-diameter post-Early Permian–pre-Cretaceous buried impact structure, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 52(4-5), pp.575-586.Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia 75 North Pole Craterde Kruijff, P. (6 March 2025). Earth's oldest-known crater discovered in outback WA is 3.47 billion years old, study finds ABC News. Retrieved 6 March 2025.Pilbara Craton, Western Australia 100 3.47 billion
See also Impact craters Impact events Bolides and Meteorites Earth Impact Database – primary source Traces of Catastrophe book from Lunar and Planetary Institute - comprehensive reference on impact crater science
Notes
External links Unesco Earth Impact Database – List of confirmed earth impact sites at the Planetary and Space Science Centre, University of New Brunswick Impact Database (formerly Suspected Earth Impact Sites list) maintained by David Rajmon for Impact Field Studies Group, USA