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Haughton impact crater



The Haughton impact crater is located on Devon Island, Nunavut, Canada. It was formed about at the end of the Oligocene, 23 million years ago, by an impacting object approximately two kilometres in diameter which left a crater some 20 kilometres in diameter.



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