Dorsa Mawson is a

wrinkle ridge A wrinkle ridge is a type of feature commonly found on lunar maria, or basalt plains. These features are low, sinuous ridges formed on the mare surface that can extend for up to several hundred kilometers. Wrinkle ridges are tectonic features cr ...

system at in Mare Fecunditatis on the

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. It is approximately 143 km long and was named after

Antarctic The Antarctic ( or , American English also or ; commonly ) is a polar region around Earth's South Pole, opposite the Arctic region around the North Pole. The Antarctic comprises the continent of Antarctica, the Kerguelen Plateau and other ...

explorer Douglas Mawson in 1979 by the

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.Dorsa Mawson
Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN) The southern end of the ridge is located near Crozier M crater and southeast of

ibn Battuta Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Battutah (, ; 24 February 13041368/1369),; fully: ; Arabic: commonly known as Ibn Battuta, was a Berbers, Berber Maghrebi people, Maghrebi scholar and explorer who travelled extensively in the lands of Afro-Eurasia, ...

crater. It trends roughly northeast towards some unnamed craters between Lindbergh and Bilharz craters.

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LAC-80
Lunar Chart {{DEFAULTSORT:Mawson Ridges on the Moon Mare Fecunditatis