Promontorium Agarum is a raised mountainous cape protruding into the southeast of
Mare Crisium
Mare Crisium (Latin ''crisium'', the "Sea of Crises") is a lunar mare located in the Moon's Crisium basin, just northeast of Mare Tranquillitatis. Mare Crisium is a basin of Nectarian age. It was formed by the flooding of basaltic lava that fill ...
on the near side of the
Moon
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. It protrudes into the mare up to 40 km and its width is about 80 km. Its
coordinates
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are .
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Promontorium Agarum was named in 1647 by ]Johannes Hevelius
Johannes Hevelius
Some sources refer to Hevelius as Polish:
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* (in German also known as ''Hevel''; ; – 28 January 1687) was a councillor and mayor of Danz ...
, who assigned names of terrestrial features to the lunar ones.[ It obtained Ancient Greek name of a cape on the northern shore of the ]Sea of Azov
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[ — probably, modern ][ or .][ It is one of only 4 features which still bear the names given by Hevelius.][
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Mountains on the Moon
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