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Select a promontorium by clicking on the name. Move the mouse over the full scale image of the larger region to show names of prominent surface features and additional data: depth from rim to crater floor and diameter, taken from the Times Atlas of the Moon (Ed. H.A.G. Lewis, Times Newspapers Ltd., 1969; charts available online at http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/LAC/) and from Virtual Moon Atlas (Christian Legrand & Patrick Chevalley).


 Agassiz

 Archerusia

 Deville

 Fresnel

 Heraclides

 Kelvin

 Laplace

 Taenarium







A promontorium (ENG: promontory, cape) is part of a mountain range protruding into the neighbouring mare plain.

(At right: Promontorium Agarum, taken from orbit; © NASA)