Comments on: Charles Knife Gorge: Cape Range N.P. (Exmouth)

By: Margaret Butterworth

Margaret Butterworth — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 20:31:49 +0000

Charles Knife was a US oil explorer in the post war years. Americans stationed at the base believed that the local terrain was likely to yield oil deposits. Not much was discovered on land, though of course a lot of oil and gas was later discovered offshore. (Info from John Lewis).

By: Glenda Larke

Glenda Larke — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 18:46:23 +0000

I think I know what you mean — canyons are more clean cut, aren't they? That's because they haven't been around as long…

This land is ancient compared to most other parts of the world, in the sense that it has not been uplifted or dotted with volcanoes "recently". So our gorges are more eaten away and worn down.

By: Katrina

Katrina — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 12:03:45 +0000

I found my way here from Karen Miller's blog and have spent entirely too much time today reading back through your posts.

Beyond being an out-of-place American term, this doesn't even look like a canyon to me. It seems to me that canyons are gorges but most gorges aren't canyons.

By: Glenda Larke

Glenda Larke — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 19:15:34 +0000

It's dry, yes. The slips ironically would have been precipitated by torrential rain. This is the land of ferocious cyclones and floods…

By: Jo

Jo — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 05:13:42 +0000

American terms creep in everywhere. Interesting pix Glenda, you said river bed, is it dry? What causes the slips?