Promontorium Agarum
Promontorium Agarum is a raised mountainous cape protruding into the southeast of
coordinates are 13°52′N 65°44′E / 13.87°N 65.73°E.[1]
Promontorium Agarum was named in 1647 by Johannes Hevelius, who assigned names of terrestrial features to the lunar ones.[2][3] It obtained Ancient Greek name of a cape on the northern shore of the Sea of Azov[4] — probably, modern Berdiansk Spit[5][6] or Fedotova Spit.[7] It is one of only 4 features which still bear the names given by Hevelius.[3]
References
- ^ "Promontorium Agarum". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program.
- doi:10.3931/e-rara-238. (Agarum, Promontorium is noted in the list of the names on p. 228)
- ^ ISBN 9780521544146.
- ^ W. Smith, ed. (1854). "Agari". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Vol. I. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. p. 72. (on Google Books, on archive.org)
- ^ R. Talbert, ed. (2000). "Map 84. Maeotis (description; on Google Books)". Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press.
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- ^ Hazlitt W. (1851). "Agarum prom., Agarus fl.". The Classical Gazetteer: a Dictionary of Ancient Geography, Sacred and Profane. London: Whittaker and Co. p. 20.
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