meteorite impact crater nsw

I found an old impact crater today by accident near lambs valley behind Cessnock nsw with google earth.. 5.5 kms across.. I do not know anything else about it.. I would love to have a scratch around the edges of the ridge to see if there is anything of interest to add to my rock collection. It is a roundish ridge/crater and cant be missed because of its shape.. check it out...

Sounds interesting, I'll have to check it out shortly

Hay Kman,
I'm looking, looking, looking but I'm buggered if I can see it.
According to google maps Lambs Valley is up past Greta, is this the area you are talking about?
How about some co-ord's.

the position is 32deg 35' 00.75s 151deg 29' 43.80 n very close to lambs valley.. punch in lambs valley nsw.. and sorry not close to Cessnock... :8 looks like a crater 5.5 kms across.

Yep I see it on Google maps!

I bet it woke up the dinosaurs.Heh heh!!

Found it, interesting topography!

I'm looking but don't see anything, a screenshot perhaps?

see: http://www.australiangeographic.com...nt/2010/12/australias-best-meteorite-craters/

sorry google earth is playing up and I cant send the image any place at all .. If one of you kind chaps that can post a screen shot sort the problem so all the members can see it...It is not a small round hole...it is 5.5kms across.. it may or may not be a crater, but it sure looks like one to me.. it needs further investigation to be sure one way or the other and may hold some nice prizes around the rim ..

Here we go took a very bad photo....

Impressive, is that another small crater to the left? Let me know when your keen to go and investigate and I'll see what I have on, Lambs Valley is just down the road.

don't let us hold you back... hook in. If it is the genuine article a guy with a detector may find some pieces of the stellar rock and send me one..

Looks more like some type of volcanic event to me.

That flat bit is the top of a mountain (a hill top really), not a crater sorry to say.

on a closer look you are correct. :8 bugger..

Piep said:

That flat bit is the top of a mountain (a hill top really), not a crater sorry to say.

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Sorry man, I didn't mean to spoil the fun of a new find. I really enjoy doing it too; sifting over google earth to look for interesting geo features.

In this case, I used to walk my dog in Lambs Valley quite a bit, before I knew about fossicking and how to look at the land for clues about what may be there.
If I was still living in that area (I lived in Bolton Point until a year ago), I would now be test panning/sieving Glendon brook and Lambs Valley creeks, seeing as this part is basically the foothills of Barrington Tops. There may be ruby and sapphire. Then again, maybe not.

nice find, I found what looked like a satellite on the cliff off steep point in WA but haven't been over that side of the island to check it out yet.

Yep shes a hill , down on the bottom of the goog earth screen can see the elevation meter go up as you scroll over it