The Moon, named after Great Britain

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

FEATURES · 194

NAME	TYPE	SIZE	WHY THAT NAME
Montes Rook	mons	682.3 km	Lawrence; British astronomer (1622-1666).
Mare Smythii	mare	374 km	Smyth, William Henry; British astronomer (1788-1865).
Dorsum Buckland	dorsum	369.1 km	William; British Earth scientist (1784-1856).
Rima Brayley	rille	327.3 km	Named from nearby crater.
Rima Sharp	rille	276.7 km	Named from nearby crater.
Milne	crater	260 km	Edward Arthur; British mathematician, astrophysicist (1896-1950).
Dorsa Harker	dorsum	213.1 km	Alfred; British petrologist (1859-1939).
Rimae Parry	rille	210 km	Named from nearby crater.
Dorsa Burnet	dorsum	195 km	Thomas; British Earth scientist (1635-1715).
Dorsa Lister	dorsum	180.1 km	Martin; British stratigrapher, zoologist (1639-1712).
Rimae Darwin	rille	170 km	Named from nearby crater.
Heaviside	crater	164.5 km	Oliver; British mathematician, physicist (1850-1925).
Richardson	crater	162.6 km	Sir Owen Willans; British quantum physicist; Nobel laureate (1879-1959).
Rima Sheepshanks	rille	157.5 km	Named from nearby crater.
J. Herschel	crater	154.4 km	Sir John Frederick William; British astronomer (1792-1871).
Babbage	crater	146.6 km	Charles; British mathematician (1792-1871).
Blackett	crater	145.3 km	Patrick Maynard Stuart; British physicist; Nobel laureate (1897-1974).
Rimae Daniell	rille	140.3 km	Named from nearby crater.
Fowler	crater	139.5 km	Alfred; British astronomer (1868-1940); Ralph Howard; British mathematician; physicist (1889-1944).
Catena Sylvester	catena	139 km	Named from nearby crater.
Dorsa Whiston	dorsum	138.9 km	William; British mathematician, astronomer (1667-1752).
De La Rue	crater	135.2 km	Warren; British astronomer (1815-1889).
Rima Bradley	rille	133.8 km	Named from nearby Mons.
Poynting	crater	127.6 km	John Henry; British physicist (1852-1914).
Fleming	crater	126.4 km	Alexander; British doctor, Nobel laureate (1881-1955); Williamina Paton; Scottish-born American astronomer (1857-1911).
Darwin	crater	122.2 km	Charles; British natural scientist (1809-1882).
Eddington	crater	120.1 km	Sir Arthur Stanley; British astrophysicist, mathematician (1882-1944).
South	crater	119 km	James; British astronomer (1785-1867).
Thomson	crater	117.3 km	Sir Joseph John; British physicist; Nobel laureate (1856-1940).
Rima Hadley	rille	116.1 km	Named from nearby Mountain (Mons Hadley).
Rayleigh	crater	113.8 km	John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh; British physicist; Nobel laureate (1842-1919).
Dorsa Barlow	dorsum	112.6 km	William; British crystallographer (1845-1934).
Rimae Gerard	rille	110 km	Named from nearby crater.
Maxwell	crater	109.2 km	James Clerk; British physicist (1831-1879).
H. G. Wells	crater	108.9 km	Herbert George; British scientific writer (1866-1946).
Scott	crater	107.8 km	Robert Falcon; British explorer (1868-1912).
Phillips	crater	104.2 km	John; British geologist, astronomer (1800-1874).
Lamb	crater	103.6 km	Sir Horace; British mathematician, physicist (1849-1934).
Ventris	crater	100.7 km	Michael George Francis; British decipherer of Linear B Cretan script (1922-1956).
Schuster	crater	100.1 km	Sir Arthur; British mathematician, physicist (1851-1934).
Rimae Ramsden	rille	100 km	Named from nearby crater.
Larmor	crater	99.5 km	Sir Joseph; British mathematician, physicist (1857-1942).
Sacrobosco	crater	97.7 km	John of Holywood, Johannes Sacrobuschus; British astronomer, mathematician (c. 1200-1256).
Joule	crater	97.5 km	James Prescott; British physicist (1818-1889).
Barrow	crater	93.8 km	Isaac; British mathematician (1630-1677).
Crommelin	crater	93.5 km	Andrew Claude De La Cherois; British astronomer (1865-1939).
Cockcroft	crater	92.2 km	Sir John Douglas; British nuclear physicist; Nobel laureate (1897-1967).
Love	crater	90.1 km	Augustus Edward Hough; British mathematician, geophysicist (1863-1940).
Roberts	crater	89.4 km	Alexander William; South African astronomer (1857-1938); Isaac; British astronomer (1829-1904).
Moseley	crater	88.9 km	Henry Gwyn Jeffreys; British physicist (1887-1915).
Spencer Jones	crater	88.2 km	Sir Harold; British astronomer (1890-1960).
Newton	crater	83.9 km	Sir Isaac; British mathematician, physicist, astronomer (1643-1727).
Jeans	crater	81.1 km	Sir James Hopwood; British mathematical physicist (1877-1946).
Chapman	crater	76.8 km	Sydney; British geophysicist (1888-1970).
Mons Bradley	mons	76.5 km	James; British astronomer (1693-1762).
Dorsa Sorby	dorsum	76 km	Henry Clifton; British Earth scientist (1826-1908).
Plummer	crater	75.7 km	Henry Crozier Keating; British astronomer (1875-1946).
Jenner	crater	73.7 km	Edward; British doctor (1749-1823).
Young	crater	71.4 km	Thomas; British doctor, physicist (1773-1829).
Espin	crater	70 km	Thomas Henry Espinall Compton; British astronomer (1858-1934).
Stratton	crater	69.8 km	Frederick John Marrion; British astronomer, astrophysicist (1881-1960).
Evans	crater	69.4 km	Sir Arthur; British archaeologist (1851-1941).
Florey	crater	69.1 km	Howard Walter; Australian-born British pathologist, Nobel Prize winner 1945 (1898-1968).
Faraday	crater	69 km	Michael; British chemist, physicist (1791-1867).
Green	crater	68.3 km	George; British mathematician (1793-1841).
Huggins	crater	65.8 km	Sir William; British astronomer (1824-1910).
Baco	crater	65.3 km	Bacon, Roger; British natural philosopher, optician (c. 1214-c. 1294).
Evershed	crater	65.3 km	John; British astronomer (1864-1956).
Gill	crater	63.9 km	Sir David; British astronomer (1843-1914).
Dreyer	crater	63.8 km	Johann Ludwig Emil; Danish astronomer (1852-1926).
Dyson	crater	63.1 km	Sir Frank Watson; British astronomer (1868-1939).
Miller	crater	61.4 km	William Allen; British chemist (1817-1870).
Boole	crater	61.3 km	George; British mathematician (1815-1864).
Ramsay	crater	61.3 km	Sir William; British chemist; Nobel laureate (1852-1916).
Rumford	crater	60.8 km	Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford; British physicist (1753-1814).
Dalton	crater	60.7 km	John; British chemist, physicist (1766-1844).
Harvey	crater	60 km	William; British doctor (1578-1657).
Wilkins	crater	59.4 km	Hugh Percy; British selenographer (1896-1960).
Comrie	crater	59.3 km	Leslie John; British astronomer (1893-1950).
Sylvester	crater	59.3 km	James Joseph; British mathematician (1814-1897).
Carpenter	crater	59.1 km	James; British astronomer (1840-1899); Edwin Francis; American astronomer (1898-1963).
Street	crater	58.5 km	Thomas; British astronomer (1621-1689).
Wrottesley	crater	58.4 km	John, Baron Wrottesley; British astronomer (1798-1867).
Congreve	crater	57.6 km	Sir William; British rocket engineer, inventor (1772-1828).
Boyle	crater	57.1 km	Robert; British natural philosopher, chemist (1627-1691).
Priestley	crater	54.9 km	Joseph; British chemist (1733-1804).
Scoresby	crater	54.9 km	William; British explorer (1789-1857).
Rima Birt	rille	54.2 km	Named from nearby crater.
Stokes	crater	53.9 km	Sir George Gabriel; British mathematician, physicist (1819-1903).
Maunder	crater	53.8 km	Annie Scott Dill Russell; British astronomer (1868-1947); Edward Walter; British astronomer (1851-1928).
Challis	crater	53.2 km	James; British astronomer, mathematician, physicist (1803-1882).
Harriot	crater	52.8 km	Thomas; British mathematician, astronomer (1560-1621).
Cavendish	crater	52.6 km	Henry; British chemist, physicist (1731-1810).
Catena Davy	catena	52.3 km	Named from nearby crater.
Chevallier	crater	51.8 km	Temple; British astronomer (1794-1873).
Neison	crater	51 km	(Neville), Edmund; British astronomer, selenographer (1849-1940).
Crookes	crater	48.3 km	Sir William; British physicist, chemist (1832-1919).
Main	crater	47.4 km	Robert; British astronomer (1808-1878).
Parry	crater	47.3 km	William Edward; British explorer (1790-1855).
Dewar	crater	46.3 km	Sir James; British chemist (1842-1923).
Chaucer	crater	45.5 km	Geoffrey; British writer, astronomer (c. 1340-1400).
Cook	crater	45.2 km	James; British explorer (1728-1779).
Saunder	crater	44.4 km	Samuel Arthur; British mathematician, selenographer (1852-1912).
Denning	crater	44.2 km	William Fredrick; British astronomer (1848-1931).
Goodacre	crater	44.1 km	Walter; British selenographer (1856-1938).
Lee	crater	41.2 km	John; British astronomer, humanitarian (1783-1866).
Barkla	crater	40.9 km	Charles Glover; British physicist; Nobel laureate (1877-1944).
Pogson	crater	40.9 km	Norman Robert; British astronomer (1829-1891).
Soddy	crater	40.8 km	Frederick; British physicist; Nobel laureate (1877-1956).
Ball	crater	40.3 km	William; British astronomer (unkn-1690).
Haldane	crater	40.3 km	John Burdon Sanderson; British doctor (1892-1964).
Lander	crater	40.1 km	Richard Lemon; British explorer (1804-1834).
Herschel	crater	39.1 km	Sir William; German-born British astronomer (1738-1822).
Airy	crater	38.9 km	George Biddell; British astronomer (1801-1892).
Shuckburgh	crater	37.7 km	Sir George; British geographer, benefactor (1751-1804).
Sharp	crater	37.6 km	Abraham; British astronomer, mathematician (1651-1742).
Ellison	crater	37 km	Mervyn Archdall; Irish-born British astronomer (1909-1963).
Briggs	crater	36.8 km	Henry; British mathematician (1561-1630).
Taylor	crater	36.4 km	Brook; British mathematician (1685-1731).
Williams	crater	36.4 km	Arthur Stanley; British astronomer (1861-1938).
Lockyer	crater	35.1 km	Sir Joseph Norman; British astrophysicist (1836-1920).
Halley	crater	34.6 km	Edmond; British astronomer (1656-1742).
Hooke	crater	34.4 km	Robert; British physicist, inventor (1635-1703).
Brown	crater	34 km	Ernest William; British astronomer, mathematician (1866-1938).
Davy	crater	33.9 km	Humphry; British physicist (1778-1829).
Dorsum Owen	dorsum	33.5 km	George; British Earth scientist (1552-1613).
Mason	crater	33.3 km	Charles; British astronomer (1730-1787).
Chadwick	crater	29.7 km	Sir James; British physicist (1891-1974).
Horrocks	crater	29.7 km	Jeremiah; British astronomer (1619-1641).
Grove	crater	28.6 km	Sir William Robert; British physicist (1811-1896).
Hind	crater	28.5 km	John Russell; British astronomer (1823-1895).
Daniell	crater	28.2 km	John Frederick; British physicist, chemist, meteorologist (1790-1845).
Carrington	crater	27.8 km	Richard Christopher; British astronomer (1826-1875).
Mons Hadley	mons	26.4 km	John, British instrument maker (1682-1744).
Baily	crater	25.7 km	Francis; British astronomer (1774-1844).
Wallace	crater	25.7 km	Alfred Russel; British natural historian (1823-1913).
Ramsden	crater	25.1 km	Jesse; British instrument maker (1735-1800).
Ross	crater	24.5 km	James Clark; British explorer (1800-1862); Frank Elmore; American astronomer, optician (1874-1966).
McClure	crater	24 km	Robert Le Mesurier; British explorer (1807-1873).
Sheepshanks	crater	23.7 km	Anne; British benefactor (1789-1876).
Dale	crater	23.4 km	Sir Henry Hallett; British physiologist; Nobel laureate (1875-1968).
Crozier	crater	22.5 km	Francis Rawdon Moira; British explorer (1796-1848).
Maskelyne	crater	22.4 km	Nevil; British astronomer (1732-1811).
Lassell	crater	21.8 km	William; British astronomer (1799-1880).
Elger	crater	21.5 km	Thomas Gwyn Empy; British astronomer (1836-1897).
Webb	crater	21.4 km	Thomas William; British astronomer (1806-1885).
Shackleton	crater	20.9 km	Sir Ernest Henry; Irish-born British Antarctic explorer (1874-1922).
Tyndall	crater	20.9 km	John; British physicist (1820-1893).
Guest	crater	19.8 km	John E.; British volcanologist (1938-2012).
Flamsteed	crater	19.3 km	John; British astronomer (1646-1719).
Sherrington	crater	18.8 km	Sir Charles Scott; British neurophysiologist; Nobel laureate (1856-1952).
South Massif	apollo	18.3 km	Astronaut named feature, Apollo 17 site.
Hargreaves	crater	18 km	Frederick James; British astronomer, optician (1891-1970).
Dawes	crater	17.6 km	William Rutter; British astronomer (1799-1868).
Mons Hadley Delta	mons	17.2 km	Named from nearby mountain (Mons Hadley).
Rutherford	crater	16 km	Sir Ernest; New Zealand-British physicist; Nobel laureate (1871-1937).
Glaisher	crater	15.9 km	James; British meteorologist (1809-1903).
Birt	crater	15.8 km	William R.; British selenographer (1804-1881).
Dunthorne	crater	15.1 km	Richard; British astronomer (1711-1775).
Manners	crater	15.1 km	Russell Henry; British astronomer (1800-1870).
Harden	crater	15 km	Sir Arthur; British chemist; Nobel laureate (1865-1940).
Rima Dawes	rille	15 km	Named from nearby crater.
Greaves	crater	14.3 km	William Michael Herbert; British astronomer (1897-1955).
Brayley	crater	14.2 km	Edward William; British geographer (1801-1870).
Cayley	crater	14.2 km	Arthur; British astronomer, mathematician (1821-1895).
Lubbock	crater	14.1 km	Sir John William; British astronomer, mathematician (1803-1865).
C. Herschel	crater	13.7 km	Caroline Lucretia; British astronomer (1750-1848).
Knox-Shaw	crater	13.4 km	Harold; British astronomer (1885-1970).
Whewell	crater	13.1 km	William; British philosopher (1794-1866).
Tolansky	crater	13 km	Samuel; British physicist (1907-1973).
Peek	crater	12.6 km	Bertrand Meigh; British astronomer (1891-1965).
Leakey	crater	12.5 km	Louis Seymour Bazett; British archaeologist (1903-1972).
Talbot	crater	12.4 km	William Henry Fox; British photographer, physicist, archaeologist (1800-1877).
Turner	crater	11.2 km	Herbert Hall; British astronomer (1861-1930).
Dollond	crater	11 km	John; British optician (1706-1761).
Patricia	crater	10.1 km	English female name.
Norman	crater	9.9 km	Robert; British natural scientist (unkn-fl. c. 1590).
De Morgan	crater	9.7 km	Augustus; British mathematician (1806-1871).
Wollaston	crater	9.6 km	William Hyde; British chemist, physicist (1766-1828).
Edith	crater	6.9 km	English female name.
Clerke	crater	6.7 km	Agnes Mary; British astronomer (1842-1907).
Smithson	crater	6 km	James; British chemist, mineralogist (1765-1829).
Blagg	crater	5 km	Mary Adela; British astronomer (1858-1944).
Huxley	crater	3.5 km	Thomas Henry; British biologist (1825-1895).
Wessex Cleft	apollo	3.5 km	Astronaut-named feature, Apollo 17 site.
South Cluster	apollo	3.2 km	Astronaut named feature, Apollo 15 site.
Hornsby	crater	2.9 km	Thomas; British astronomer (1733-1810).
Sampson	crater	1.8 km	Ralph Allen; Irish-born British astronomer, mathematician (1866-1939).
Grace	crater	1.5 km	English female name.
Susan	crater	1 km	English female name.
South Ray	apollo	0.7 km	Astronaut named feature, Apollo 16 site.
Camelot	apollo	0.6 km	Astronaut-named feature, Apollo 17 site.
Shakespeare	apollo	0.5 km	Astronaut-named feature, Apollo 17 site.
Sherlock	apollo	0.5 km	Astronaut-named feature, Apollo 17 site.

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