Promontorium Taenarium

Promontorium Taenarium is a headland on the near side of the Moon.

It is located in the eastern end of Mare Nubium.

[1] The name Promontorium Taenarium was first used by Johannes Hevelius in his 1647 map of the Moon, but this refers to a bright point at crater Guericke B.

[2] Taenarium refers to Cape Tainaron (known as Cape Matapan), the southernmost point of the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece.

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Promonontorium Taenarium is on the mid-lower left of the LRO image