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Feature Name
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Target |
Diameter |
Center Latitude
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Center
Longitude |
Feature Type
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Approval Date
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Origin |
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| Al-Idrisi Montes | Pluto | 383.00 | 33.99 | 156.01 | Mons, montes | Aug 08, 2017 | Ash-Sharīf al-Idrīsī; Arabian mapmaker and geographer (1100–1165/66). |
| Baret Montes | Pluto | 170.39 | 14.60 | 157.80 | Mons, montes | Apr 26, 2018 | Jeanne Baret (Baré); first woman to have completed circumnavigation voyage of the globe (1740-1807). |
| Coleman Mons | Pluto | 32.00 | -24.17 | 167.98 | Mons, montes | Sep 02, 2021 | Elizabeth “Bessie”; early American aviator and the first woman of African-American and Native American descent to earn a pilot’s license (1892-1926). |
| Elcano Montes | Pluto | 488.00 | -26.04 | 143.70 | Mons, montes | May 30, 2019 | Juan Sebastián; Spanish explorer of Basque origin, who completed in 1522 the first circumnavigation of the Earth which started in 1519 under the leadership of Magellan (c.1476–1526). |
| Hillary Montes | Pluto | 388.00 | 3.26 | 169.58 | Mons, montes | Aug 08, 2017 | Edmund; New Zealand mountaineer (1919–2008). |
| Piccard Mons | Pluto | 257.00 | -35.26 | 176.79 | Mons, montes | May 30, 2019 | Auguste; Swiss-Belgian inventor and physicist known for his pioneering balloon flights into the Earth’s upper atmosphere up to 17 km (1884–1962). |
| Pigafetta Montes | Pluto | 234.00 | -6.83 | 146.44 | Mons, montes | May 30, 2019 | Antonio; Italian scholar and explorer, whose journal is the only original description of the discoveries made during the first circumnavigation of the Earth which started in Spain in 1519 under the leadership of Magellan (c.1491 – c.1531). |
| Tabei Montes | Pluto | 105.00 | -11.73 | 164.33 | Mons, montes | Nov 19, 2019 | Junko Tabei, Japanese mountaineer and the first woman to climb both Mount Everest and the Seven Summits (1939–2016). |
| Tenzing Montes | Pluto | 283.00 | -15.61 | 177.38 | Mons, montes | Aug 08, 2017 | Tenzing Norgay; Nepalese (Sherpa) mountaineer (1914–1986). |
| Wright Mons | Pluto | 165.00 | -21.36 | 173.24 | Mons, montes | May 30, 2019 | Orville (1871–1948) and Wilbur (1867–1912), brothers, U.S. aviation pioneers who invented, built, and flew in 1903 the world’s first successful powered heavier-than-air flying machine (airplane) with a pilot aboard. |
| Zheng He Montes | Pluto | 101.00 | 19.01 | 160.57 | Mons, montes | Feb 03, 2021 | Zheng He, Chinese explorer, led voyages of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (1371 to 1433). |
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