List of lunar features

The surface of the Moon has many features, including mountains and valleys, craters, and plains, amongst others.

Lunar plain features

Lunar maria are large, dark, regions of the Moon. They do not contain any water, but are believed to have been formed from molten rock from the Moon's mantle coming out onto the surface of the Moon. This list also includes the one oceanus and the features known by the names lacus, palus and sinus. The modern system of lunar nomenclature was introduced in 1651 by Riccioli. Riccioli's map of the Moon was drawn by Francesco Maria Grimaldi, who has a crater named after him.
There is also a region on the Lunar farside that was briefly misidentified as a mare and named Mare Desiderii. It is no longer recognized. Other former maria include:

Mare Parvum, immediately to the east of Inghirami
Mare Incognitum
Mare Novum, northeast of Plutarch
Mare Struve, near Messala

A related set of features are the Lunar lacus, which are smaller basaltic plains of similar origin. A related set of features are the sinus and paludes. Some sources also list a Palus Nebularum at 38.0° N, 1.0° E, but the designation for this feature has not been officially recognized by the IAU.

Craters

The large majority of these features are impact craters. The crater nomenclature is governed by the International Astronomical Union, and this list only includes features that are officially recognized by that scientific society.
The lunar craters are listed in the following subsections. Where a formation has associated satellite craters, these are detailed on the main crater description pages.

''Catenae''

A catena is a chain of craters.

Name	Coordinates	Diameter	Name origin
Catena Abulfeda		219 km	After nearby crater Abulfeda
Catena Artamonov		134 km	After nearby crater Artamonov
Catena Brigitte		5 km	French feminine name
Catena Davy		50 km	After nearby crater Davy
Catena Dziewulski		80 km	After nearby crater Dziewulski
Catena Gregory		152 km	After nearby crater Gregory
Catena Humboldt		165 km	After nearby crater Humboldt
Catena Krafft		60 km	After nearby crater Krafft
Catena Kurchatov		226 km	After nearby crater Kurchatov
Catena Leuschner		364 km	After nearby crater Leuschner
Catena Littrow		10 km	After nearby crater Littrow
Catena Lucretius		271 km	After nearby crater Lucretius
Catena Mendeleev		188 km	After nearby crater Mendeleev
Catena Michelson		456 km	After nearby crater Michelson
Catena Pierre		9 km	French masculine name
Catena Sumner		247 km	After nearby crater Sumner
Catena Sylvester		173 km	After nearby crater Sylvester
Catena Taruntius		100 km	After nearby crater Taruntius
Catena Timocharis		50 km	After nearby crater Timocharis
Catena Yuri		5 km	Russian masculine name

Valleys

Several large lunar valleys have been given names. Most of them are named after a nearby crater; see the list of craters on the Moon for more information.

Valley	Coordinates	Dimension	Eponym	Crater
Vallis Alpes		166 km	Latin name meaning "Alpine valley"	-
Vallis Baade		203 km	Walter Baade	Baade
Vallis Bohr		80 km	Niels Bohr	Bohr
Vallis Bouvard		284 km	Alexis Bouvard	-
Vallis Capella		49 km	Martianus Capella	Capella
Vallis Inghirami		148 km	Giovanni Inghirami	Inghirami
Vallis Palitzsch		132 km	Johann Palitzsch	Palitzsch
Vallis Planck		451 km	Max Planck	Planck
Vallis Rheita		445 km	Anton Maria Schyrleus of Rheita	Rheita
Vallis Schrödinger		310 km	Erwin Schrödinger	Schrödinger
Vallis Schröteri		168 km	Johann Hieronymus Schröter	Schröter
Vallis Snellius		592 km	Willebrord Snell	Snellius

Mountains

The heights of the isolated mountains or massifs listed here are not consistently reported 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.
This list 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.
Mountains are referred to using the Latin word mons.

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	7.0 km	French masculine name
Mons Ardeshir		8 km	5.9 km	Ardeshir, Persian male name
Mons Argaeus		50 km	2.6 km	Mount Erciyes, Asia Minor
Mont Blanc		25 km	3.6 km	Mont Blanc, the Alps
Mons Bradley		30 km	4.2 km	James Bradley, astronomer
Mons Delisle		30 km	1.0 km	Named after nearby crater Delisle
Mons Dieter		20 km	8.0 km	German masculine name
Mons Dilip		2 km	5.5 km	Indian masculine name
Mons Esam		8 km	0.4 km	Arabic masculine name
Mons Ganau		14 km	7.9 km	African masculine name
Gruithuisen Delta">Gruithuisen (crater)">Gruithuisen Delta		20 km	1.8 km	Named after nearby crater Gruithuisen
Mons Gruithuisen Gamma		20 km	1.5 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	1.0 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	2.0 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

Other features

The Moon's surface exhibits many other geological features. In addition to mountains, valleys, and impact craters, the following surface features have received names in the Lunar nomenclature, many of them named after a nearby crater or mountain.
The listed diameter for these features is the longest dimension that contains the entire geological formation. The latitudes and longitudes are in selenographic coordinates.

Albedo

These features have a high albedo compared to the surrounding terrain.

Name	Coordinates	Diameter	Name origin
Reiner Gamma		70.0 km	After nearby crater Reiner

On the far side of the Moon there are unnamed albedo features on Mare Ingenii and Mare Marginis. These are located antipodal to the Mare Imbrium and Mare Orientale impact basins.

''Dorsa''

A dorsum is a wrinkle-ridge system commonly found on lunar maria.

Name	Coordinates	Dia.	Name origin
Dorsa Aldrovandi		136 km	Ulisse Aldrovandi
Dorsa Andrusov		160 km	Nicolai Ivanovich Andrusov
Dorsum Arduino		107 km	Giovanni Arduino
Dorsa Argand		109 km	Emile Argand
Dorsum Azara		105 km	Félix Manuel de Azara
Dorsa Barlow		120 km	William Barlow
Dorsum Bucher		90 km	Walter Hermann Bucher
Dorsum Buckland		380 km	William Buckland
Dorsa Burnet		194 km	Thomas Burnet
Dorsa Cato		140 km	Cato the Elder
Dorsum Cayeux		84 km	Lucien Cayeux
Dorsum Cloos		100 km	Hans Cloos
Dorsum Cushman		80 km	Joseph Augustine Cushman
Dorsa Dana		70 km	James Dwight Dana
Dorsa Ewing		141 km	William Maurice Ewing
Dorsum Gast		60 km	Paul Werner Gast
Dorsa Geikie		228 km	Sir Archibald Geikie
Dorsum Grabau		121 km	Amadeus William Grabau
Dorsum Guettard		40 km	Jean-Etienne Guettard
Dorsa Harker		197 km	Alfred Harker
Dorsum Heim		148 km	Albert Heim
Dorsum Higazy		60 km	Riad Higazy
Dorsa Lister		203 km	Martin Lister
Dorsa Mawson		132 km	Douglas Mawson
Dorsum Nicol		50 km	William Nicol
Dorsum Niggli		50 km	Paul Niggli
Dorsum Oppel		268 km	Albert Oppel
Dorsum Owen		50 km	George Owen
Dorsa Rubey		100 km	William Walden Rubey
Dorsum Scilla		108 km	Agostino Scilla
Dorsa Smirnov		156 km	Sergei Sergeevich Smirnov
Dorsa Sorby		80 km	Henry Clifton Sorby
Dorsa Stille		80 km	Hans Stille
Dorsum Termier		90 km	Pierre-Marie Termier
Dorsa Tetyaev		176 km	Mikhail Mikhailovich Tetyaev
Dorsum Thera		7 km	Greek feminine name
Dorsum Von Cotta		199 km	Carl Bernard von Cotta
Dorsa Whiston		85 km	William Whiston
Dorsum Zirkel		193 km	Ferdinand Zirkel

''Promontoria''

These features form a cape or headland on a mare.

Name	Coordinates	Dia.	Name origin
Promontorium Agarum		70 km	Named from a cape in the Sea of Azov
Promontorium Agassiz		20 km	Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz
Promontorium Archerusia		10 km	Named from a cape on the Black Sea
Promontorium Deville		20 km	Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville
Promontorium Fresnel		20 km	Augustin Jean Fresnel
Promontorium Heraclides		50 km	Heraclides Ponticus
Promontorium Kelvin		50 km	William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
Promontorium Laplace		50 km	Pierre Simon Laplace
Promontorium Taenarium		70 km	Named from cape in Greece

''Rimae''

Rimae are lunar rilles.

Name	Coordinates	Dia.	Name origin
Rima Agatharchides		50 km	Named from nearby crater Agatharchides
Rima Agricola		110 km	Named from nearby Montes Agricola
Rimae Alphonsus		80 km	Within crater Alphonsus
Rimae Apollonius		230 km	Named from nearby crater Apollonius
Rimae Archimedes		169 km	Named from nearby crater Archimedes
Rima Archytas		90 km	Named from nearby crater Archytas
Rima Ariadaeus		250 km	Named from nearby crater Ariadaeus
Rimae Aristarchus		121 km	Named from nearby crater Aristarchus
Rimae Arzachel		50 km	Within crater Arzachel
Rimae Atlas		60 km	Within crater Atlas
Rima Billy		70 km	Named from nearby crater Billy
Rima Birt		50 km	Named from nearby crater Birt
Rimae Bode		70 km	Named from nearby crater Bode
Rimae Boscovich		40 km	Within crater Boscovich
Rima Bradley		161 km	Named from nearby Mons Bradley
Rima Brayley		311 km	Named from nearby crater Brayley
Rima Calippus		40 km	Named from nearby crater Calippus
Rima Cardanus		175 km	Named from nearby crater Cardanus
Rima Carmen		10 km	Spanish feminine name
Rima Cauchy		140 km	Named from nearby crater Cauchy
Rimae Chacornac		120 km	Named from nearby crater Chacornac
Rima Cleomedes		80 km	Within crater Cleomedes
Rima Cleopatra		14 km	Greek feminine name
Rima Conon		30 km	Named from nearby crater Conon
Rimae Daniell		200 km	Named from nearby crater Daniell
Rimae Darwin		143 km	Named from nearby crater Darwin
Rima Dawes		15 km	Named from nearby crater Dawes
Rimae de Gasparis		93 km	Named from nearby crater de Gasparis
Rima Delisle		60 km	Named from nearby crater Delisle
Rima Diophantus		150 km	Named from nearby crater Diophantus
Rimae Doppelmayer		162 km	Named from nearby crater Doppelmayer
Rima Draper		160 km	Named from nearby crater Draper
Rima Euler		90 km	Named from nearby crater Euler
Rima Flammarion		80 km	Named from nearby crater Flammarion
Rimae Focas		100 km	Named from nearby crater Focas
Rimae Fresnel		90 km	Named from nearby Promontorium Fresnel
Rima Furnerius		50 km	Within crater Furnerius
Rima Galilaei		89 km	Named from nearby crater Galilaei
Rima Gärtner		30 km	Within crater Gärtner
Rimae Gassendi		70 km	Within crater Gassendi
Rima Gay-Lussac		40 km	Named from nearby crater Gay-Lussac
Rima G. Bond		168 km	Named from nearby crater G. Bond
Rimae Gerard		100 km	Named from nearby crater Gerard
Rimae Goclenius		240 km	Named from nearby crater Goclenius
Rimae Grimaldi		230 km	Named from nearby crater Grimaldi
Rima Hadley		80 km	Named from nearby Mons Hadley
Rima Hansteen		25 km	Named from nearby crater Hansteen
Rima Hesiodus		256 km	Named from nearby crater Hesiodus
Rima Hyginus		219 km	Named from nearby crater Hyginus
Rimae Hypatia		206 km	Named from nearby crater Hypatia
Rima Jansen		35 km	Named from nearby crater Jansen
Rimae Janssen		114 km	Named from nearby crater Janssen
Rimae Kopff		41 km	Named from nearby crater Kopff
Rima Krieger		22 km	Named from nearby crater Krieger
Rimae Liebig		140 km	Named from nearby crater Liebig
Rimae Littrow		115 km	Named from nearby crater Littrow
Rimae Maclear		110 km	Named from nearby crater Maclear
Rimae Maestlin		80 km	Named from nearby crater Maestlin
Rima Mairan		90 km	Named from nearby crater Mairan
Rima Marcello		2 km	Italian masculine name
Rima Marius		121 km	Named from nearby crater Marius
Rimae Maupertuis		84 km	Named from nearby crater Maupertuis
Rimae Menelaus		131 km	Named from nearby crater Menelaus
Rimae Mersenius		84 km	Named from nearby crater Mersenius
Rima Messier		100 km	Named from nearby crater Messier
Rima Milichius		100 km	Named from nearby crater Milichius
Rimae Opelt		70 km	Named from nearby crater Opelt
Rima Oppolzer		94 km	Named from nearby crater Oppolzer
Rimae Palmieri		150 km	Named from nearby crater Palmieri
Rimae Parry		82 km	Named from nearby crater Parry
Rimae Petavius		80 km	Named from nearby crater Petavius
Rimae Pettit		450 km	Named from nearby crater Pettit
Rimae Pitatus		94 km	Named from nearby crater Pitatus
Rimae Plato		87 km	Named from nearby crater Plato
Rimae Plinius		124 km	Named from nearby crater Plinius
Rimae Posidonius		70 km	Named from nearby crater Posidonius
Rimae Prinz		80 km	Named from nearby crater Prinz
Rimae Ramsden		108 km	Named from nearby crater Ramsden
Rima Réaumur		30 km	Named from nearby crater Réaumur
Rima Reiko		2 km	Japanese feminine name
Rimae Repsold		166 km	Named from crater Repsold, which it crosses
Rimae Riccioli		400 km	Named from nearby crater Riccioli
Rimae Ritter		100 km	Named from nearby crater Ritter
Rimae Römer		110 km	Named from nearby crater Römer
Rima Rudolf		8 km	German masculine name
Rima Schröter		40 km	Named from nearby crater Schröter
Rimae Secchi		35 km	Named from nearby crater Secchi
Rima Sharp		107 km	Named from nearby crater Sharp
Rima Sheepshanks		200 km	Named from nearby crater Sheepshanks
Rima Siegfried		14 km	German masculine name
Rimae Sirsalis		426 km	Named from nearby crater Sirsalis
Rimae Sosigenes		190 km	Named from nearby crater Sosigenes
Rima Suess		165 km	Named from nearby crater Suess
Rimae Sulpicius Gallus		90 km	Named from nearby crater Sulpicius Gallus
Rima Sung-Mei		4 km	Chinese feminine name
Rimae Taruntius		25 km	Named from nearby crater Taruntius
Rimae Theaetetus		50 km	Named from nearby crater Theaetetus
Rima T. Mayer		50 km	Named from nearby crater T. Mayer
Rimae Triesnecker		215 km	Named from nearby crater Triesnecker
Rimae Vasco da Gama		60 km	Named from nearby crater Vasco [da Gama (crater)\|Vasco da Gama]
Rima Vladimir		14 km	Slavic masculine name
Rima Wan-Yu		12 km	Chinese feminine name
Rima Yangel		30 km	Named from nearby crater Yangel
Rima Zahia		16 km	Arabic feminine name
Rimae Zupus		120 km	Named from nearby crater Zupus

''Rupes''

These are escarpments in the surface.

Name	Coordinates	Dia.	Name origin
Rupes Altai		427.0 km	Altai Mountains
Rupes Boris		4.0 km	Named from nearby crater Boris
Rupes Cauchy		120.0 km	Named from nearby crater Cauchy
Rupes Kelvin		78.0 km	Named from nearby Promontorium Kelvin
Rupes Liebig		180.0 km	Named from nearby crater Liebig
Rupes Mercator		93.0 km	Named from nearby crater Mercator
Rupes Recta		134.0 km	Latin for "straight cliff"
Rupes Toscanelli		70.0 km	Named from nearby crater Toscanelli

''Terrae''

The continental areas between the seas were given comparable names by Giovanni Battista Riccioli, but were opposite the names used for the seas. Thus there were the lands of sterility, heat, and liveliness. However these names for the highland regions are no longer used on recent maps, and Terrae are not officially recognized as standard lunar nomenclature by the International Astronomical Union.

Name	Name origin	Near side position
Insula Ventorum	Island of Winds
Peninsula Fulminum	Peninsula of Thunder	Between Mare Humorum and Oceanus Procellarum.
Terra Caloris	Land of Heat	Southwest rim of the near side.
Terra Fertilitatis	Land of Fertility	Southeastern rim of the near side.
Terrae Grandinis	Lands of Hail	Northeast border of Mare Imbrium.
Terrae Manna	Lands of Manna	Region between Mare Tranquillitatis, Mare Fecunditatis and Mare Nectaris.
Terra Nivium	Land of Snows	Southeast border of Mare Imbrium.
Terra Pruinae	Land of Frost	Northwest border of Mare Imbrium.
Terra Sanitatis	Land of Healthiness	Central region between Mare Nubium and Mare Tranquillitatis.
Terra Siccitatis	Land of Dryness	Northwest rim of the near side.
Terra Sterilitatis	Land of Sterility
Terra Vigoris	Land of Cheerfulness	Region southeast of Mare Crisium.
Terra Vitae	Land of Liveliness	Northeast rim of the near side.