Breast-shaped hill


Breast-shaped hills are anthropomorphic geographic features found in various parts of the world. In some traditional cultures they were once revered as the attributes of the Mother Goddess, such as the Paps of Anu, named after Anu, an important female deity of pre-Christian Ireland. "Pap" is an archaic word for the breast or nipple of a woman. It is used in the name of a number of breast-shaped hills, particularly those with a small hilltop protuberance.

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The name Mamucium that gave origin to the name of the city of Manchester is thought to derive from a Celtic language name meaning "breast-shaped hill", referring to the sandstone bluff on which the fort stood; this later evolved into the name Manchester.
Mamelon is a French name for a breast-shaped hillock. Fort Mamelon was a famous hillock fortified by the Russians and captured by the French as part of the Siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War of the 1850s. The word mamelon is also used in volcanology to describe a particular rock formation of volcanic origin. The term was coined by the French explorer and naturalist Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent.

Africa

African Great Lakes

Horn of Africa

Indian Ocean

North Africa

Southern Africa

West Africa

Antarctica

Asia

Cambodia

China

Japan

  • Mount Tsukuba with double peaks, one considered male and one female.

Malaysia

  • Hills on Dayang Bunting Island, Langkawi, named for their resemblance to a pregnant maiden.

Middle East

Philippines

Russia

Thailand

Europe

UK and Ireland

Denmark

  • Marens Patter, a pair of twin hills that has functioned as a landmark for seafarers since the Bronze Age.

Greece

  • Aphrodite's Breasts – two hills in Mykonos

Slovenia

Spain

France

North and Central America

Canada

El Salvador

  • San Vicente, also known as Chichontepec, the mountain of the two breasts in Nahuat, a stratovolcano

Guadeloupe

Haiti

Mexico

Nicaragua

Panama

Puerto Rico

United States

Oceania

Australia

New Zealand

South America

Argentina

Bolivia

Chile

  • Sierra Teta, Futaleufú
  • Tetas del Biobío, formed by Cerro Teta Norte and Cerro Teta Sur, located in the mouth of the Biobío River.

Colombia

Cuba

French Guiana

  • Les Mamelles Islets

Peru

Uruguay

Venezuela