Explorer’s Guide to Impact Craters
Haughton Crater Tour
- Getting to Haughton Crater
- Virtual Tour of Haughton Crater
- Basecamp
- Thomas Payne Canyon
- Haughton – Stop 1
- Haughton – Stop 2
- Haughton – Stop 3
- Haughton – Stop 4
- Haughton – Stop 5
- Haughton – Stop 6
- Haughton – Stop 7
- Haughton – Stop 8
- Haughton – Stop 9
- Haughton – Stop 10
- Haughton – Stop 11
- Haughton – Stop 12
- Haughton – Stop 13
- Haughton – Stop 14
- Haughton – Stop 15
Getting to the Haughton Impact Structure
Image: Herbert PDN, ed. Canada’s Polar Environments
The Haughton impact structure is located on Devon Island, Canada (75° 22′ N, 89° 41′ W), in one of the most isolated regions on Earth: the Canadian High Arctic far above the Arctic Circle. This makes getting there a challenge!
The first leg of the journey to Haughton is aboard a commercial flight from Montreal, Canada to Resolute Bay, Cornwallis Island, Nunavut. These flights run from the east via Iqaluit, and from the west via Cambridge Bay.
The second leg is a short flight aboard a Twin Otter plane to Devon Island. Our final destination is, of course, the Haughton impact structure.
SECOND LEG: FLIGHT TO DEVON ISLAND, CANADA
Image: CyberNatural Software , University of Guelph, revised 2002
Aerial view of the Haughton Impact Structure
Photo: G. Osinski, University of Western Ontario
Before touching down on Devon Island, we fly right above the Haughton impact structure to get a birdseye view (above right). The crater diameter is approximately 24 kilometers. The Twin Otter plane will land on a dirt airstrip right at basecamp. To see the places you’ll visit on your virtual tour of Haughton, click the link below for the tour map.