Mons Penck, a Mountain Promontory Near Rupes Altai

Feature Profile & Selenographic Data

Feature type

mons

Coordinates

10.00° S · 21.74° E

Diameter

37.59 km

IAU approval

1976/01/01 00:00:00

LAC quadrangle

LAC-78 · Theophilus

Geological Chronicle

Mons Penck is a mountain promontory on the near side of the Moon, located at selenographic coordinates 10.0° S, 21.6° E. It lies northeast of the crater Kant and to the north of Ibn-Rushd and the Rupes Altai scarp.

The feature has a base diameter of about 30 kilometers and climbs to an altitude of over 4 km. To the southeast of Mons Penck lie the prominent craters Theophilus and Cyrillus.

The peak was named after Albrecht Penck, a German geographer and geologist who lived from 1858 to 1945.

Scientific Sources & References

• IAU Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature — Official name, feature type, coordinates, dimensions, approval and name origin.
• Wikipedia — Localized Wikipedia extract

Name Origin

Albrecht; German geographer (1858-1945).