Geological Chronicle
Promontorium Laplace is a raised mountainous cape situated at the end of Montes Jura in Mare Imbrium on the near side of the Moon. Spanning a diameter of 50 kilometers, it reaches an elevation of 2,600 meters at selenographic coordinates 46.8° N, 25.5° W.
The cape forms the northeast boundary of the bay of Sinus Iridum. It is named after Pierre Simon marquis de Laplace, an 18th-century French astronomer, mathematician, and physicist.