Breast-shaped hill

symbol of fertility and well-being. It is not uncommon for very old archaeological sites to be located in or below such hills, as on Samson, Isles of Scilly, where there are large ancient burial grounds both on the North Hill and South Hill,^[4][5] or Burrén and Burrena, Aragon, Spain, where two Iron Age Urnfield culture archaeological sites lie beneath the hills.^[6]

African Great Lakes

• Mount Elgon on the Uganda-Kenya border
• Laikipia district, Rift Valley Province, northern Kenya.^[11]

• Naasa Hablood in Somaliland

Indian Ocean

• Trois Mamelles mountains in the west of Mauritius
• Mamelles Island, Seychelles

Southern Africa

• Omatako Mountain south-west of Otjiwarongo in Namibia
• Sheba's Breasts, Eswatini; these formations inspired British writer H. Rider Haggard, who included them in his novel King Solomon's Mines.^[12]
• Three Sisters in the Northern Cape, South Africa

West Africa

• Deux Mamelles, Pointe des Almadies, Cap-Vert, Senegal^[13]

Antarctica

• Una Peaks, long known as Una's Tits colloquially, at the entrance to the Lemaire Channel, Graham Land
• Nipple Peak, Palmer Archipelago, Graham Land
• Hemus Peak, Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands

Asia

Cambodia

• Senmonorom District, Mondulkiri Province, Cambodia.^[14]

• Dazeshan Mountain in Shandong Province
• Wuyi Mountain in Fujian Province
• Twin Breasts Peak in Tianzhu Mountain in Anhui Province
• Qianling Mausoleum near Xian, their shape is man-made
• Two Breast Peaks (Chinese: 雙乳峰):

• two mountains in Zhenfeng County, Guizhou Province
• two peaks of Golden Needle Mountain (Chinese: 雙乳峰) in Taimali Township, Taitung County, Taiwan

• Shandong Province, China
  .

• Jabal Al Nahdain is a set of hills in the middle of Sana’a, Yemen. It is was on the property of the Presidential Palace and is used as a weapons cache.
• Tell Sader al-Arus (translation from Arabic: "Breast of the bride") is a mountain in the Golan Heights
  .

• Chocolate Hills, more than a thousand unusual geological formations in Bohol. A popular tourist destination named for their brown colour in the summer.
• Ilihan Hill, "Watery Breast", a pilgrimage site about four kilometres from Jagna, Bohol
• Kagmasuso, among other breast-shaped hills in San Andres, Catanduanes^[15]
• Mount Susong Dalaga (literally "Maiden's Breasts Mountain") is the name of several peaks in the Philippines, including:

• Mount Susong Dalaga, Abra de Ilog, Occidental Mindoro^[16]
• Mount Susong Dalaga (also known as Breast Peak) in Tampakan, South Cotabato
• Susong Dalaga Peak of Mount Batolusong, Tanay, Rizal
• Quezon
• Mount Tagapo (also known as Mount Susong Dalaga), Talim Island, Rizal two huge conical hills that are the highest peaks of Talim Island.

• Musuan Peak, an active volcano in Maramag, Bukidnon

Thailand

• Phayao Province, a breast-shaped hill rising in an area of grassland of the Phi Pan Nam Range.^[17]
• Nakhon Si Thammarat Province, due to the surrounding mountains.^[18]
• Khao Nom Nang, a hill at Huai Krachao, Kanchanaburi. 14°18′00″N 99°43′00″E / 14.30000°N 99.71667°E / 14.30000; 99.71667
• Khao Nom Nang, (เขานมนาง), a hill north of Pak Phraek, Kanchanaburi. 14°05′00″N 99°34′00″E / 14.08333°N 99.56667°E / 14.08333; 99.56667
• Khao Nom Nang, a hill between Nong Pet and Chong Sadao, Kanchanaburi. 14°21′02″N 99°12′53″E / 14.35056°N 99.21472°E / 14.35056; 99.21472
• Khao Nom Nang, an isolated hill in Khok Samae San, Lopburi. 15°19′00″N 100°51′00″E / 15.31667°N 100.85000°E / 15.31667; 100.85000
• Nakhon Sawan Province. 15°34′00″N 100°17′00″E / 15.56667°N 100.28333°E / 15.56667; 100.28333
• Khao Nom Nang, the name of two hills west of Doeng Bang Nam Buat, Suphan Buri. 14°51′00″N 100°04′00″E / 14.85000°N 100.06667°E / 14.85000; 100.06667
• Ranong Province, Thailand
  .
• Prachuap Khiri Khan Province. 10°59′00″N 99°22′00″E / 10.98333°N 99.36667°E / 10.98333; 99.36667
• Chumphon Province. 09°46′00″N 98°43′01″E / 9.76667°N 98.71694°E / 9.76667; 98.71694
• Phang Nga Province, part of a greater mountain system. 08°58′00″N 98°28′00″E / 8.96667°N 98.46667°E / 8.96667; 98.46667
• Phatthalung Province. 07°40′58″N 100°01′01″E / 7.68278°N 100.01694°E / 7.68278; 100.01694
• Phang Nga Province
  .
• Prachuap Khiri Khan Province.^[20] 12°13′N 100°01′E / 12.217°N 100.017°E / 12.217; 100.017
• Chanthaburi Province.^[21][22] 12°28′N 102°01′E / 12.467°N 102.017°E / 12.467; 102.017

UK and Ireland

• Mumbles, the two islands (on one of which stands a lighthouse) off the southeast corner of the Gower peninsula, Swansea, Wales
• Grampians
  , Scotland
• Aberdeenshire
  , Scotland
• North Berwick Law In East Lothian, Scotland
• Mam Barisdale in Knoydart, Scotland
• Mynydd Llanwenarth near Abergavenny, Wales
• Mount Keen in Aberdeenshire / Angus, Scotland
• Northala Fields in London, England. Technically 4 hills, and artificial, but clearly resembling two "grassy boobs" from the A40
• A' Chioch in Ben More, Isle of Mull, Scotland
• Mam Sodhail, on the northern side of Glen Affric, some 30 kilometres east of Kyle of Lochalsh
• High Peak of Derbyshire, England.^[23]
• Samson, Isles of Scilly
• Twmbarlwm near Risca, Wales
• Wittenham Clumps in Oxfordshire
• Shutlingsloe, Cheshire
• Paps or Maiden Paps are rounded, breastlike hills located mostly in Scotland:
  • Paps of Anu, near Killarney, Ireland
  • Paps of Fife
    in Scotland
  • Paps of Jura, on the western side of the island of Jura, in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland
  • Paps of Lothian in Scotland
  • Maiden Paps, twin hills in Caithness
    , Scotland
  • Maiden Paps, twin hills in the Kilpatrick Hills, Scotland
  • Maiden Paps, twin hills south of Hawick in the Scottish Borders
    , Scotland
  • Maiden Paps, another name for the Tunstall Hills near Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England
  • Maiden's Pap, another name for Schiehallion, Perth and Kinross, Scotland
  • Pap of Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands

Denmark

• Marens Patter (Maren's Tits), a pair of twin hills that has functioned as a landmark for seafarers since the Bronze Ages.

Germany

• Lilienstein in Saxon Switzerland

Greece

• Breasts of Aphrodite in Mykonos

Hungary

• Sashegy

Iceland

• Vatnsdalshólar

Slovenia

• Šmarna gora or Mount Saint Mary north of Ljubljana

Spain

• Tetica de Bacares or "La Tetica", a 2,086 m (6,488 ft) high mountain in the Sierra de Los Filabres, Spain.^[24]
• Picos de Busampiro [es], commonly known as Tetas de Lierganes, in Cantabria
• Guadalajara Province
• Puig de Mamelles, Felanitx, Mallorca
• Ses Mamelles, another name for the 714 m (2343 ft) high Puig des Castellot, Escorca, Mallorca
• Turó de la Mamella, a mountain near Vacarisses, Catalonia
• Burrén and Burrena^[25] near Fréscano, Aragon

North and Central America

Canada

• Anûkathâ Îpa in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta

El Salvador

• Nahuat
  , a stratovolcano

Guadeloupe

• Mamelles

Haiti

• Morne Deux Mamelles

Mexico

• Las Tetas de Juana, San Pedro Municipality, Coahuila
• Tres Tetas Mountain or El Chichión in Costa Grande of Guerrero

Nicaragua

• Concepción formed from the breasts of Ometepetl, a daughter of the Niquirano tribe.^[26]

• Cerro La Teta in Las Guabas

Puerto Rico

• Cerro Las Tetas in Salinas
• Tetas de Cerro Gordo in San German

United States

• Bubble Mountains, in Acadia National Park, Maine.^[27]
• Isanaklesh Peaks, in Maricopa County, Arizona, formerly known as Squaw Tits.
• Nippletop, in the Adirondack High Peaks of New York. During the later 19th century, it was euphemistically renamed "Dial Mountain", a name now officially applied to another nearby peak.
• Andy Griffith Show
  as Mt. Pilot. Andy spoke about a wonderful place to travel called "Pilot" by the locals.
• Pinnacle Mountain, Arkansas, near Maumelle. During the colonial and early American periods, the mountain was known as "Mamelle" mountain. "Mamelle" is a name commonly applied in the French-speaking parts of the world to a breast.^[28]
• Rock Mary, Caddo County, Oklahoma.
• Ute Indians, meaning "two breasts".^[29]
• Tetilla Peak, Caja del Rio, New Mexico. "Tetilla" is Spanish for "nipple".
• Teton Range. French-Canadian trappers named the Teton Mountains around 1820. The distinctive peaks appeared as Les Trois Tétons (The Three Breasts) as seen from the north;^[30]
  • Grand Teton,
  • Middle Teton,
  • South Teton.
• conquistadors and settlers arrived at the beginning of the 18th century, they called the area "Los Pechos de la Chola" or "Breasts of the Indian Maiden" and devoted the area to ranching.^[31]
  When San Francisco passed under American control during the 19th Century, it was renamed "Twin Peaks".
• Maggie's Peaks, just west of Lake Tahoe, California.
• Uncanoonuc Mountains, Goffstown, New Hampshire. From a Native American word for a woman's breasts.^[32]
• Mollie's Nipple or Molly's Nipple is the name given to as many as seven peaks and some other geological features in Utah.^[33]
• Tunas Peak located in Pecos County, Texas, west of Bakersfield.^[34]
• Betsy Bell and Mary Gray, two adjacent hills in Staunton, Virginia.

Oceania

Australia

• Pyramid Hill, Pilbara, Western Australia
• The Paps, Victoria
• Pigeon House Mountain, New South Wales
• Black Mountain (Australian Capital Territory) and Mount Ainslie, the space between being known as Canberra, meaning cleavage between the two 'breasts' of those mountains.^[35]
• Victoria, Australia

• Saddle Hill, Dunedin
• Harbour Cone
  , Dunedin

• Cerro Tres Tetas, in Santa Cruz^[36]
• Cerro Teta in Neuquén.
• Tucumán
  .
• Los Nonos, in Nono, Córdoba.

Bolivia

• Cerro Tres Tetas in Potosí

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

• La Guajira
• Morro La Teta, El Carmen de Viboral, Antioquia
• Pico Tetari, Serranía del Perijá, La Guajira

Cuba

• Tetas de Santa Teresa, Baracoa

French Guiana

• Les Mamelles Islets

Peru

• Cerro Tetas, Chiclayo Province

Uruguay

• Guaraní language.^[37]
• Cerro Pan de Azúcar (Sugarloaf Hill), in the Maldonado Department

Venezuela

• Isla Margarita
• Teta de Niquitao, Trujillo State^[38]
• Cerro de Las Tetas, Tinaquillo, Cojedes
• Cerro las Tres Tetas, Barquisimeto

Gallery

• 
  Seal of La Colle-Saint-Michel former commune with two golden breast-shaped hills (Mamelons)
• 
  Pennant Melangell

  with the breast-shaped hill in the background
• 
  Las Tetas de Lierganes, Cantabria, Spain
• 
  Cerro Las Tetas, Salinas, Puerto Rico, as seen from the PR-52 northbound rest area at km 49.0
• 
  Hill by Lake Elgygytgyn, Chukotka, Russia

See also

• Maiden Paps (disambiguation)
• Mamelon (fort)
• Mamelon (volcanology)
• Mamucium
• Monadnock
• Mountains and hills of Scotland
• Phallic Rock, a rock in Arizona, United States
• St Melangell's Church, Pennant Melangell
• The Sleeping Lady

References