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Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature
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Venus: Turi Tholus

See Tholus, tholi in the descriptor terms page for additional information.

Direction of Increasing Longitude: east
Longitude Range: 0.0° to 360.0°

Feature Name Turi Tholus Search for maps that cover Turi Tholus in the Planetary Map Index
Latitude -66.9°
Longitude 222.3°
Diameter 15 KM
Continent Oceania
Ethnicity Polynesia
Map
Quadrangle V-59
Approval Status 5: Adopted by IAU
Approval Date 2000
Reference Zhenshchina v mifakh i legendakh (Woman in mythes and legends); Encyclopedic Dictionary, Komus Publishing, Tashkent, 1992 (in Russian).
Origin Polynesian goddess, created islands' relief.

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