thumb|[[Montes Harbinger]]

This is a list of mountains on the Moon (with a scope including all named mons and montes, planetary science jargon terms roughly equivalent to 'isolated mountain'/'massif' and 'mountain range').

Caveats

  • This list is not comprehensive, as surveying of the Moon is a work in progress.
  • Heights are in meters; most peaks have not been surveyed with the precision of a single meter.
  • Mountains on the Moon have heights and elevations/altitudes defined relative to various vertical datums (referring to the lunoid), each in turn defined relative to the center of mass (CoM) of the Moon.
  • : — the U.S. Army Mapping Service datum was established 1,737,988 meters from the CoM.
  • : — the U.S. Defense Mapping Agency used 1,730,000 meters.
  • : — The Clementine topographic data use 1,737,400 meters as the baseline, and show a range of about 18,100 meters from lowest to highest point on the Moon.
  • This is not a list of the highest places on the Moon, meaning those farthest from the CoM. Rather, it is a list of peaks at various heights relative to the relevant datum. This is because the Moon has mass asymmetries: the highest point, located on the far side of the Moon, is approximately 6,500 meters higher than Mons Huygens (usually listed as the tallest mountain).

List

{| class="wikitable sortable"<!--TODO: right-alignment for number columns-->

|+ Peaks on the Moon

! Name !! Type !! Namesake !! Peak coordinates !! Peak elevation (m) !! Topographic prominence (m)

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| Agnes || mons || Agnes (Greek feminine name, meaning 'lamb') || || 650&nbsp;m ||30&nbsp;m

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| Agricola || montes || Georgius Agricola (metallurgist) || || ||

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| Alpes || montes || Alps (Europe) || || ||

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| Ampère || mons || André-Marie Ampère (physicist) || || 3300&nbsp;m <!--30000&nbsp;m--> || 3000&nbsp;m

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| André || mons || André (French masculine name) || || ||

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| Apenninus || montes || Apennine Mountains (Italy) || || ||

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| Archimedes || montes || Archimedes (crater) nearby || || ||

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| Ardeshir || mons || Ardeshir (also 'Ardashir'; Persian King, Persian male name) || || ||

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| Argaeus || mons || Mount Erciyes (Asia Minor) || || ||

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| Blanc<!--Mont Blanc (Moon)--> || mons || Mont Blanc (the Alps) || || 3800&nbsp;m || 3600&nbsp;m

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| Bradley || mons || James Bradley (astronomer) || || 4300&nbsp;m || 4200&nbsp;m

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| Carpatus || montes || Carpathian Mountains (Europe) || || ||

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| Caucasus || montes || Caucasus Mountains (Europe) || || ||

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| Cordillera || montes || cordillera (Spanish for "mountain chain") || || ||

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| Delisle || mons || Delisle (crater) nearby || || ||

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| Dieter || mons || Dieter (German masculine name) || || ||

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| Dilip || mons || Dilip (Indian masculine name) || || 2000&nbsp;m ||

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| Esam || mons || Esam (Arabic masculine name) || || 6622 m || 400 m ||

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| Hadley || mons || John Hadley (inventor) || || 4500&nbsp;m || 3500&nbsp;m

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| Haemus || montes || Haemus (Greek name for the Balkan Mountains) || || ||

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| Hansteen || mons || Hansteen (crater) nearby || || ||

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| Harbinger || montes || Harbingers of dawn upon the rim of Aristarchus (crater) || || ||

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| Herodotus || mons || Herodotus (crater) nearby || || || 1000&nbsp;m

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| Huygens || mons || Christiaan Huygens (astronomer) || || 3274&nbsp;m || 5300&nbsp;m<!--70000&nbsp;m--> || 500&nbsp;m

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| Secchi || montes || Secchi (lunar crater) nearby || || ||

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| Spitzbergen || montes || by resemblance to the Spitsbergen islands (German for "sharp peaks") || || ||

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| Taurus || montes || Taurus Mountains (Asia Minor) || || ||

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| Teneriffe || montes || Tenerife (island) || || ||

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| Usov || mons || Mikhail Usov (geologist) || || ||

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| Vinogradov || mons || Aleksandr Pavlovich Vinogradov (chemist) || || 1400&nbsp;m<!--25000&nbsp;m--> || 1400&nbsp;m

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| Vitruvius || mons || Vitruvius (crater) nearby || || 2300&nbsp;m<!--15000&nbsp;m--> || 2300&nbsp;m

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| Wolff || mons || Christian Wolff (philosopher) || || 3800&nbsp;m