Tnorala - Gosse Bluff

Back blip from the Macdonnell ranges trip.  This is from a viewpoint looking from inside the crater to the outer walls.  It is thought to have been formed by the impact of an asteroid or comet some 140 million years ago.The original crater rim has been estimated at about 22 km in diameter, but this has been eroded away and now is 5 km in diameter.  It is regarded as a sacred site which marks the point where a wooden baby carrier (toorna) and baby fell from the heavens, causing a vast circle of rocks to be thrown up. The morning and evening stars are the mother and father endlessly searching for their lost child.