Notable Large Impact Craters
- Acraman crater in South Australia (90 km diameter)
- Brent crater in northern Ontario (3.8 km diameter)
- Chesapeake Bay impact crater (90 km diameter)
- Chicxulub Crater off the coast of Yucatán (170 km diameter)
- Clearwater Lakes a double crater impact in Québec, Canada (26 km and 36 km in diameter)
- Lonar crater in India (1.83 km diameter)
- Lumparn in the Aaland Islands, in the Baltic Sea (9 km diameter)
- Manicouagan Reservoir in Québec, Canada (100 km diameter)
- Manson crater in Iowa (38 km crater is buried)
- Meteor Crater in Arizona, also known as Barringer Crater, the first confirmed terrestrial impact crater. (1.2 km diameter)
- Mjølnir impact crater in the Barents Sea (40 km diameter)
- Nördlinger Ries crater in Bavaria, Germany (25 km diameter)
- Popigai crater in Russia (100 km diameter)
- Siljan (lake) in Sweden, largest crater in Europe (52 km diameter)
- Sudbury Basin in Ontario, Canada (250 km diameter).
- Ungava Bay in Québec, Canada (260 by 320 km)
- Vredefort Crater in South Africa, the largest known impact crater on Earth (300 km diameter from an estimated 10 km wide meteorite).
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