The Moon, named after Australia

6 named features. The International Astronomical Union records why each name was chosen, and those reasons are printed below exactly as they were approved.

FEATURES · 6

NAME	TYPE	SIZE	WHY THAT NAME
Dorsa Mawson	dorsum	142.7 km	Douglas; English-Australian Antarctic explorer (1882-1958).
Bragg	crater	77.2 km	Sir William Henry; Australian physicist; Nobel laureate (1862-1942).
Pawsey	crater	60 km	Joseph Lade; Australian radio astronomer (1908-1962).
Gum	crater	54.6 km	Colin; Australian astronomer (1924-1960).
Hogg	crater	38.4 km	Arthur Robert; Australian astronomer (1903-1966); Frank Scott; Canadian astronomer (1904-1951).
Tebbutt	crater	34 km	John; Australian astronomer (1834-1916).

Names and their origins come from the IAU Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature (USGS Astrogeology), retrieved 2026-08-14.
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DATA: IAU / USGS Astrogeology · NASA LRO LOLA