Promontorium Agassiz-Deville AS15-M-1539

Promontorium Agassiz is a mountainous cape situated on the northeast margin of

Mare Imbrium Mare Imbrium (Latin ''imbrium'', the "Sea of Showers" or "Sea of Rains", "Sea of Tears") is a vast lunar mare, lava plain within the Imbrium Basin on the Moon and is one of the larger craters in the Solar System. The Imbrium Basin formed fro ...

on the near side of the

Moon The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It is the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System and the largest and most massive relative to its parent planet, with a diameter about one-quarter that of Earth (comparable to the width ...

. Its

selenographic coordinates The selenographic coordinate system is used to refer to locations on the surface of Earth's moon. Any position on the lunar surface can be referenced by specifying two numerical values, which are comparable to the latitude and longitude of Earth. ...

are 42.4° N, 1.77° E. It is located south of

Promontorium Deville Promontorium Deville is a mountainous cape situated on the northeast margin of Mare Imbrium on the near side of the Moon. Its selenographic coordinates are 43.31° N, 1.14° E. It is located north of Promontorium Agassiz, south of Mont Blanc, ...

and

Mons Blanc Mont Blanc is a mountain in the Montes Alpes range on the Moon. It is located on the western edge of the range, near the shore of Mare Imbrium, at . Its width is about 25 kilometers; the height is 3.7–3.8 km above adjacent plains of Mare ...

, northeast of

Mons Piton Mons Piton is an isolated Moon, lunar mountain that is located in the eastern part of the Mare Imbrium, to the north-northwest of the crater Aristillus (crater), Aristillus. Due east of Mons Piton is the flooded crater Cassini (lunar crater), C ...

, and northwest of Cassini crater. Promontorium Agassiz is named after

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz ( ; ) FRS (For) FRSE (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history. Spending his early life in Switzerland, he re ...

, a Swiss zoologist and geologist. The name of the feature was approved by the IAU in 1935.Promontorium Agassiz
Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN)

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a map showing Promontorium Agassiz and surrounding area Mountains on the Moon {{Mountains on the Moon