Perkin is a lunar impact crater that is located in the northern hemisphere on the Moon's far side.

Just to the southeast is the somewhat smaller cater Guillaume, and to the west-southwest lies Dunér.

This is a worn and eroded crater formation with an outer rim that has been reshaped by several subsequent impacts.

Small craterlets lie along the southern inner wall and the northwestern rim.

Prior to formal naming by the IAU in 1970,[1] Perkin was called Crater 72.