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Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature
Feature Information

Rhea: Malunga

See Crater, craters in the descriptor terms page for additional information.

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

Feature Name Malunga Search for maps that cover Malunga in the Planetary Map Index
Latitude 65.1°
Longitude 56.2°
Starting Latitude 65°
Starting Longitude 56.1°
Ending Latitude 65.1°
Ending Longitude 56.2°
Diameter 0 KM
Continent Africa
Ethnicity Yao
Map
Quadrangle PRELIM
Approval Status 5: Adopted by IAU
Approval Date 1982
Reference Primal Myths: Creating the World, by Barbara C. Sproul; Harper & Row, New York, 1979.
Origin Yao (Bantu); creator god; left Earth to live in sky when man was cruel to animals.

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