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Lacus Hiemalis (
Latin Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area aroun ...
''hiemālis'', "Lake of Winter") is a small
lunar mare The lunar maria ( ; mare ) are large, dark, basaltic plains on Earth's Moon, formed by lava flowing into ancient impact basins. They are less reflective than the "highlands" as a result of their iron-rich composition, and hence appear dark to ...
in the
Terra Nivium Terra Nivium (Latin for "Land of Snows") is a roughly triangular highland region on the Moon. In his ''Almagestum novum'', the notable selenographer Giovanni Riccioli named the various highland regions List of features on the Moon#Terra, terrae. H ...
region on the
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. The crater Daubrée is to the northeast of the lacus, and
Lacus Lenitatis Lacus Lenitatis (Latin ''lēnitātis'', for "Lake of Softness") is a small lunar mare in the Terra Nivium region on the Moon. Another small mare called Lacus Hiemalis is to the northeast of Lacus Lenitatis.LTO-60A1 Daubrée
— L&PI
topographic map In modern mapping, a topographic map or topographic sheet is a type of map characterized by large- scale detail and quantitative representation of relief features, usually using contour lines (connecting points of equal elevation), but histori ...


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