Darwin Crater

For the craters on the Moon and Mars, see Darwin (lunar crater) and Darwin (Martian crater).

Darwin Crater
Tasmania
False-colour Landsat image of Darwin Crater (arrowed); screen capture from NASA World Wind
Location of Darwin crater in Tasmania
Location of Darwin crater in Tasmania
Darwin Crater
Coordinates42°18′15″S 145°39′27″E / 42.30417°S 145.65750°E / -42.30417; 145.65750

Darwin Crater is a suspected meteorite impact crater in Western Tasmania about 26 km (16 mi) south of Queenstown, just within the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park. The crater is expressed as a rimless circular flat-floored depression, 1.2 km (0.75 mi) in diameter, within mountainous and heavily forested terrain. It is east of the West Coast Range and the former North Mount Lyell Railway formation.