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03-07-2006, 05:28 PM
Hum,
is Darwin crater at: 42°18.39'S, 145°39.41'E (http://static.flickr.com/45/109270519_ab83371c73_o.jpg) ?

Darwin Crater was discovered in 1972 by Ramsay J. Ford, and lies 26 km south of Queenstown Tasmania.
The crater was formed by a 20 - 50 m diameter asteroid that struck the Earth approximately 730,000 +/- 40,000 years ago.
The crater has a diameter of 1.2km and is 230 metres deep. It was a lake until about 30 000 years ago, today it is filled with sediment.

And what is this at -42.249599° 145.555629° (http://static.flickr.com/38/109194595_6f6d697998_o.jpg) ?

McMaster_de
03-07-2006, 10:13 PM
When you not have the coordinates, then it would be very difficult to find a 1 km diameter crater in a low-res area.

blob
03-08-2006, 11:26 AM
Hum,
the more i use my Jedi powers the more i think that the crater is at
42°18.39'S, 145°39.41'E

i will upload a corrected kmz file....

blob
03-09-2006, 08:31 PM
Hum,
i got an e-mail from the Tasmanian Travel Centre, who says that Darwin Crater is located at lat: 42 deg. 15 min., long: 145 deg. 36 min. E ....

Now i have suspect three location....i will get to the bottom of this crater....

blob
05-27-2006, 11:45 PM
Hum,
i managed to track down a better picture (http://static.flickr.com/64/154400280_5b2757ad1e_m.jpg) and i have a location...

Latitude = -42.30483 Longitude = 145.65883