List of mountains on the Moon

This is a list of named mountains on the Moon.

Note that the heights listed below are not consistent across sources. In the 1960s, the US Army Mapping Service used elevation relative to 1,737,988 meters from the center of the Moon. In the 1970s, the US Defense Mapping Agency used 1,730,000 meters. The Clementine topographic data published in the 1990s uses 1,737,400 meters.

Also note that this table is not comprehensive, and does not list the highest places on the Moon. Clementine data show a range of about 18,100 meters from lowest to highest point on the Moon. The highest point, located on the far side of the Moon, is approximately 6500 meters higher than Mons Huygens (usually listed as the tallest mountain).

Mountains

These are isolated mountains or massifs.

Name	Lat./Long.	Dia.	Ht.	Name Origin
Mons Agnes		0.65 km	0.03 km	Greek feminine name
Mons Ampère		30 km	3.0 km	André-Marie Ampère, physicist
Mons André		10 km		French masculine name
Mons Ardeshir		8 km		Ardeshir (Ardashir), Persian male name
Mons Argaeus		50 km		Mount Erciyes, Asia Minor
Mons Blanc		25 km	3.6 km	Mont Blanc, the Alps
Mons Bradley		30 km	4.2 km	James Bradley, astronomer
Mons Delisle		30 km		Named after nearby crater Delisle
Mons Dieter		20 km		German masculine name
Mons Dilip		2 km		Indian masculine name
Mons Esam		8 km		Arabic masculine name
Mons Ganau		14 km		African masculine name
Mons Gruithuisen Delta		20 km		Named after nearby crater Gruithuisen
Mons Gruithuisen Gamma		20 km		Named after nearby crater Gruithuisen
Mons Hadley		25 km	4.6 km	John Hadley, inventor
Mons Hadley Delta		15 km	3.5 km	Named after nearby Mount Hadley
Mons Hansteen		30 km		Named after nearby crater Hansteen
Mons Herodotus		5 km		Named after nearby crater Herodotus
Mons Huygens		40 km	4.7 km	Christiaan Huygens, astronomer
Mons La Hire		25 km	1.5 km	Philippe de la Hire, astronomer
Mons Maraldi		15 km	1.3 km	Named after nearby crater Maraldi
Mons Moro		10 km		Antonio Lazzaro Moro, Earth scientist
Mons Penck		30 km	4.0 km	Albrecht Penck, geographer
Mons Pico		25 km	2. km	Spanish for "peak"
Mons Piton		25 km	2.3 km	El Pitón, a summit of Mount Teide, Tenerife
Mons Rümker		70 km	0.5 km	Karl Ludwig Christian Rümker, astronomer
Mons Usov		15 km		Mikhail Usov, geologist
Mons Vinogradov		25 km	1.4 km	Aleksandr Pavlovich Vinogradov, chemist
Mons Vitruvius		15 km	2.3 km	Named after nearby crater Vitruvius
Mons Wolff		35 km	3.5 km	Baron Christian von Wolff, philosopher

Mountain ranges

Name	Lat./Long.	Dia.	Name Origin
Montes Agricola		141 km	Georgius Agricola, Earth scientist
Montes Alpes		281 km	The Alps, Europe
Montes Apenninus		401 km	The Apennine Mountains, Italy
Montes Archimedes		163 km	Named after nearby crater Archimedes
Montes Carpatus		361 km	The Carpathian Mountains, Europe
Montes Caucasus		445 km	The Caucasus Mountains, Europe
Montes Cordillera		574 km	Spanish for "mountain chain"
Montes Haemus		560 km	Greek name for the Balkan Mountains
Montes Harbinger		90 km	Harbingers of dawn on the crater Aristarchus
Montes Jura		422 km	The Jura Mountains, Europe
Montes Pyrenaeus		164 km	The Pyrenees Mountains, Europe
Montes Recti		90 km	Latin for "straight range"
Montes Riphaeus		189 km	Greek name for the Ural Mountains, Russia
Montes Rook		791 km	Lawrence Rook, astronomer
Montes Secchi		50 km	Named after nearby crater Secchi
Montes Spitzbergen		60 km	Named after German for "sharp peaks" and for resemblance to the Spitsbergen islands
Montes Taurus		172 km	Taurus Mountains, Asia Minor
Montes Teneriffe		182 km	Tenerife island

See also

• List of mountains on the Moon by height
• List of features on the Moon
• List of craters on the Moon
• List of maria on the Moon
• List of valleys on the Moon
• List of mountain ranges
• List of tallest mountains in the Solar System

External links

• List of named lunar mountains in Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature
• Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon