Principal Far-side Craters
Principal Far-side Craters
Adapted from the International Astronomical Union Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature
The following table lists named far-side craters greater than 50 kilometres in diameter. Click on the crater name to view the Moon centred on that crater. Longitude in red indicates a far-side object.
Name Lat. Long. Diam. (km) Abbe 57.3S 175.2E 66.0 Abul Wáfa 1.0N 116.6E 55.0 Aitken 16.8S 173.4E 135.0 Al-Biruni 17.9N 92.5E 77.0 Alden 23.6S 110.8E 104.0 Alder 48.6S 177.4W 77.0 Alekhin 68.2S 131.3W 70.0 Al-Khwarizmi 7.1N 106.4E 65.0 Alter 18.7N 107.5W 64.0 Amici 9.9S 172.1W 54.0 Anderson 15.8N 171.1E 109.0 Antoniadi 69.7S 172.0W 143.0 Anuchin 49.0S 101.3E 57.0 Apollo 36.1S 151.8W 537.0 Appleton 37.2N 158.3E 63.0 Artamonov 25.5N 103.5E 60.0 Artem'ev 10.8N 144.4W 67.0 Ashbrook 81.4S 112.5W 156.0 Avicenna 39.7N 97.2W 74.0 Avogadro 63.1N 164.9E 139.0 Babcock 4.2N 93.9E 99.0 Backlund 16.0S 103.0E 75.0 Baldet 53.3S 151.1W 55.0 Barbier 23.8S 157.9E 66.0 Barringer 28.0S 149.7W 68.0 Becquerel 40.7N 129.7E 65.0 Becvár 1.9S 125.2E 67.0 Beijerinck 13.5S 151.8E 70.0 Bel'kovich 61.1N 90.2E 214.0 Bell 21.8N 96.4W 86.0 Bellinsgauzen 60.6S 164.6W 63.0 Belopol'skiy 17.2S 128.1W 59.0 Belyaev 23.3N 143.5E 54.0 Berkner 25.2N 105.2W 86.0 Berlage 63.2S 162.8W 92.0 Bhabha 55.1S 164.5W 64.0 Birkeland 30.2S 173.9E 82.0 Birkhoff 58.7N 146.1W 345.0 Blackett 37.5S 116.1W 141.0 Blazhko 31.6N 148.0W 54.0 Boltzmann 74.9S 90.7W 76.0 Bolyai 33.6S 125.9E 135.0 Borman 38.8S 147.7W 50.0 Bose 53.5S 168.6W 91.0 Boyle 53.1S 178.1E 57.0 Bragg 42.5N 102.9W 84.0 Brashear 73.8S 170.7W 55.0 Bredikhin 17.3N 158.2W 59.0 Bridgman 43.5N 137.1E 80.0 Bronk 26.1N 134.5W 64.0 Brouwer 36.2S 126.0W 158.0 Brunner 9.9S 90.9E 53.0 Buffon 40.4S 133.4W 106.0 Buisson 1.4S 112.5E 56.0 Buys-Ballot 20.8N 174.5E 55.0 Cabannes 60.9S 169.6W 80.0 Cajori 47.4S 168.8E 70.0 Campbell 45.3N 151.4E 219.0 Cannizzaro 55.6N 99.6W 56.0 Carnot 52.3N 143.5W 126.0 Carol 8.5N 122.3E 117.0 Carver 43.0S 126.9E 59.0 Cassegrain 52.4S 113.5E 55.0 Chamberlin 58.9S 95.7E 58.0 Champollion 37.4N 175.2E 58.0 Chandler 43.8N 171.5E 85.0 Chaplygin 6.2S 150.3E 137.0 Chapman 50.4N 100.7W 71.0 Chappe 61.2S 91.5W 59.0 Chappell 54.7N 177.0W 80.0 Charlier 36.6N 131.5W 99.0 Chauvenet 11.5S 137.0E 81.0 Chebyshev 33.7S 133.1W 178.0 Chernyshev 47.3N 174.2E 58.0 Chrétien 45.9S 162.9E 88.0 Cockcroft 31.3N 162.6W 93.0 Compton 55.3N 103.8E 182.0 Comrie 23.3N 112.7W 59.0 Comstock 21.8N 121.5W 72.0 Congreve 0.2S 167.3W 57.0 Cori 50.6S 151.9W 65.0 Coriolis 0.1N 171.8E 78.0 Coulomb 54.7N 114.6W 89.0 Cremona 67.5N 90.6W 85.0 Crocco 47.5S 150.2E 75.0 Crommelin 68.1S 146.9W 94.0 Curie 22.9S 91.0E 151.0 Cyrano 20.5S 157.7E 80.0 Daedalus 5.9S 179.4E 93.0 D'Alembert 50.8N 163.9E 248.0 Danjon 11.4S 124.0E 71.0 Dante 25.5N 180.0E 54.0 Davisson 37.5S 174.6W 87.0 De Forest 77.3S 162.1W 57.0 De Moraes 49.5N 143.2E 53.0 De Vries 19.9S 176.7W 59.0 Debye 49.6N 176.2W 142.0 Dellinger 6.8S 140.6E 81.0 Deutsch 24.1N 110.5E 66.0 Dewar 2.7S 165.5E 50.0 Doerfel 69.1S 107.9W 68.0 Donner 31.4S 98.0E 58.0 Doppler 12.6S 159.6W 110.0 Dreyer 10.0N 96.9E 61.0 Dryden 33.0S 155.2W 51.0 Dugan 64.2N 103.3E 50.0 Dunér 44.8N 179.5E 62.0 Dyson 61.3N 121.2W 63.0 Dziewulski 21.2N 98.9E 63.0 Edison 25.0N 99.1E 62.0 Eijkman 63.1S 143.0W 54.0 Einthoven 4.9S 109.6E 69.0 Elvey 8.8N 100.5W 74.0 Emden 63.3N 177.3W 111.0 Eötvös 35.5S 133.8E 99.0 Erro 5.7N 98.5E 61.0 Esnault-Pelterie 47.7N 141.4W 79.0 Espin 28.1N 109.1E 75.0 Evans 9.5S 133.5W 67.0 Evdokimov 34.8N 153.0W 50.0 Evershed 35.7N 159.5W 66.0 Fabry 42.9N 100.7E 184.0 Fechner 59.0S 124.9E 63.0 Fermi 19.3S 122.6E 183.0 Fersman 18.7N 126.0W 151.0 Finsen 42.0S 177.9W 72.0 Firsov 4.5N 112.2E 51.0 Fitzgerald 27.5N 171.7W 110.0 Fizeau 58.6S 133.9W 111.0 Fleming 15.0N 109.6E 106.0 Fowler 42.3N 145.0W 146.0 Freundlich 25.0N 171.0E 85.0 Fridman 12.6S 126.0W 102.0 Froelich 80.3N 109.7W 58.0 Frost 37.7N 118.4W 75.0 Gadomski 36.4N 147.3W 65.0 Gagarin 20.2S 149.2E 265.0 Galois 14.2S 151.9W 222.0 Gamow 65.3N 145.3E 129.0 Ganswindt 79.6S 110.3E 74.0 Garavito 47.5S 156.7E 74.0 Gavrilov 17.4N 130.9E 60.0 Gerasimovich 22.9S 122.6W 86.0 Ginzel 14.3N 97.4E 55.0 Green 4.1N 132.9E 65.0 Gregory 2.2N 127.2E 67.0 Grissom 47.0S 147.4W 58.0 Guillaume 45.4N 173.4W 57.0 Guyot 11.4N 117.5E 92.0 H. G. Wells 40.7N 122.8E 114.0 Hagen 48.3S 135.1E 55.0 Hale 74.2S 90.8E 83.0 Harkhebi 39.6N 98.3E 237.0 Harriot 33.1N 114.3E 56.0 Hartmann 3.2N 135.3E 61.0 Harvey 19.5N 146.5W 60.0 Heaviside 10.4S 167.1E 165.0 Helberg 22.5N 102.2W 62.0 Henyey 13.5N 151.6W 63.0 Hertz 13.4N 104.5E 90.0 Hertzsprung 2.6N 129.2W 591.0 Hess 54.3S 174.6E 88.0 Heymans 75.3N 144.1W 50.0 Hilbert 17.9S 108.2E 151.0 Hippocrates 70.7N 145.9W 60.0 Hirayama 6.1S 93.5E 132.0 Hopmann 50.8S 160.3E 88.0 Houzeau 17.1S 123.5W 71.0 Hutton 37.3N 168.7E 50.0 Ibn Firnas 6.8N 122.3E 89.0 Ibn Yunus 14.1N 91.1E 58.0 Icarus 5.3S 173.2W 96.0 Idel'son 81.5S 110.9E 60.0 Ioffe 14.4S 129.2W 86.0 Isaev 17.5S 147.5E 90.0 Jackson 22.4N 163.1W 71.0 Jeans 55.8S 91.4E 79.0 Jenner 42.1S 95.9E 71.0 Joliot 25.8N 93.1E 164.0 Joule 27.3N 144.2W 96.0 Jules Verne 35.0S 147.0E 143.0 Kamerlingh Onnes 15.0N 115.8W 66.0 Karpinskiy 73.3N 166.3E 92.0 Karrer 52.1S 141.8W 51.0 Keeler 10.2S 161.9E 160.0 Kekulé 16.4N 138.1W 94.0 Khvol'son 13.8S 111.4E 54.0 Kibal'chich 3.0N 146.5W 92.0 Kidinnu 35.9N 122.9E 56.0 King 5.0N 120.5E 76.0 Kirkwood 68.8N 156.1W 67.0 Kleymenov 32.4S 140.2W 55.0 Klute 37.2N 141.3W 75.0 Koch 42.8S 150.1E 95.0 Kohlschütter 14.4N 154.0E 53.0 Kolhörster 11.2N 114.6W 97.0 Komarov 24.7N 152.5E 78.0 Kondratyuk 14.9S 115.5E 108.0 Konstantinov 19.8N 158.4E 66.0 Korolev 4.0S 157.4W 437.0 Kostinskiy 14.7N 118.8E 75.0 Kovalevskaya 30.8N 129.6W 115.0 Kramers 53.6N 127.6W 61.0 Krasovskiy 3.9N 175.5W 59.0 Kugler 53.8S 103.7E 65.0 Kulik 42.4N 154.5W 58.0 Kurchatov 38.3N 142.1E 106.0 Lacchini 41.7N 107.5W 58.0 Lamb 42.9S 100.1E 106.0 Lampland 31.0S 131.0E 65.0 Landau 41.6N 118.1W 214.0 Lane 9.5S 132.0E 55.0 Langemak 10.3S 118.7E 97.0 Langevin 44.3N 162.7E 58.0 Langmuir 35.7S 128.4W 91.0 Larmor 32.1N 179.7W 97.0 Laue 28.0N 96.7W 87.0 Lauritsen 27.6S 96.1E 52.0 Leavitt 44.8S 139.3W 66.0 Lebedev 47.3S 107.8E 102.0 Lebedinskiy 8.3N 164.3W 62.0 Leeuwenhoek 29.3S 178.7W 125.0 Leibnitz 38.3S 179.2E 245.0 Lemaître 61.2S 149.6W 91.0 Leucippus 29.1N 116.0W 56.0 Levi-Civita 23.7S 143.4E 121.0 Ley 42.2N 154.9E 79.0 Lindblad 70.4N 98.8W 66.0 Lippmann 56.0S 114.9W 160.0 Lipskiy 2.2S 179.5W 80.0 Lobachevskiy 9.9N 112.6E 84.0 Lodygin 17.7S 146.8W 62.0 Lomonosov 27.3N 98.0E 92.0 Lorentz 32.6N 95.3W 312.0 Love 6.3S 129.0E 84.0 Lovelace 82.3N 106.4W 54.0 Lowell 12.9S 103.1W 66.0 Lucretius 8.2S 120.8W 63.0 Lundmark 39.7S 152.5E 106.0 Lyman 64.8S 163.6E 84.0 Mach 18.5N 149.3W 180.0 Maksutov 40.5S 168.7W 83.0 Mandel'shtam 5.4N 162.4E 197.0 Marconi 9.6S 145.1E 73.0 Mariotte 28.5S 139.1W 65.0 Maunder 14.6S 93.8W 55.0 Maxwell 30.2N 98.9E 107.0 McKellar 15.7S 170.8W 51.0 McLaughlin 47.1N 92.9W 79.0 McMath 17.3N 165.6W 86.0 Mechnikov 11.0S 149.0W 60.0 Mees 13.6N 96.1W 50.0 Meggers 24.3N 123.0E 52.0 Meitner 10.5S 112.7E 87.0 Mendel 48.8S 109.4W 138.0 Mendeleev 5.7N 140.9E 313.0 Merrill 75.2N 116.3W 57.0 Meshcherskiy 12.2N 125.5E 65.0 Mezentsev 72.1N 128.7W 89.0 Michelson 7.2N 120.7W 123.0 Milankovic 77.2N 168.8E 101.0 Millikan 46.8N 121.5E 98.0 Milne 31.4S 112.2E 272.0 Mineur 25.0N 161.3W 73.0 Minkowski 56.5S 146.0W 113.0 Minnaert 67.8S 179.6E 125.0 Mitra 18.0N 154.7W 92.0 Möbius 15.8N 101.2E 50.0 Mohoróvicic 19.0S 165.0W 51.0 Moiseev 9.5N 103.3E 59.0 Montgolfier 47.3N 159.8W 88.0 Moore 37.4N 177.5W 54.0 Morse 22.1N 175.1W 77.0 Moseley 20.9N 90.1W 90.0 Nansen 80.9N 95.3E 104.0 Nassau 24.9S 177.4E 76.0 Nernst 35.3N 94.8W 116.0 Neujmin 27.0S 125.0E 101.0 Niépce 72.7N 119.1W 57.0 Nishina 44.6S 170.4W 65.0 Nöther (Noether) 66.6N 113.5W 67.0 Numerov 70.7S 160.7W 113.0 Nüsl 32.3N 167.6E 61.0 Obruchev 38.9S 162.1E 71.0 O'Day 30.6S 157.5E 71.0 Ohm 18.4N 113.5W 64.0 Olcott 20.6N 117.8E 81.0 Olivier 59.1N 138.5E 69.0 Omar Khayyam 58.0N 102.1W 70.0 Oppenheimer 35.2S 166.3W 208.0 Oresme 42.4S 169.2E 76.0 Orlov 25.7S 175.0W 81.0 Ostwald 10.4N 121.9E 104.0 Paneth 63.0N 94.8W 65.0 Pannekoek 4.2S 140.5E 71.0 Papaleksi 10.2N 164.0E 97.0 Paracelsus 23.0S 163.1E 83.0 Paraskevopoulos 50.4N 149.9W 94.0 Parenago 25.9N 108.5W 93.0 Parkhurst 33.4S 103.6E 96.0 Paschen 13.5S 139.8W 124.0 Pasteur 11.9S 104.6E 224.0 Patsaev 16.7S 133.4E 55.0 Pauli 44.5S 136.4E 84.0 Pavlov 28.8S 142.5E 148.0 Pawsey 44.5N 145.0E 60.0 Perepelkin 10.0S 129.0E 97.0 Perkin 47.2N 175.9W 62.0 Perrine 42.5N 127.8W 86.0 Petropavlovskiy 37.2N 114.8W 63.0 Petzval 62.7S 110.4W 90.0 Pirquet 20.3S 139.6E 65.0 Planck 57.9S 136.8E 314.0 Plaskett 82.1N 174.3E 109.0 Plummer 25.0S 155.0W 73.0 Poczobutt 57.1N 98.8W 195.0 Pogson 42.2S 110.5E 50.0 Poincaré 56.7S 163.6E 319.0 Poinsot 79.5N 145.7W 68.0 Polzunov 25.3N 114.6E 67.0 Popov 17.2N 99.7E 65.0 Poynting 18.1N 133.4W 128.0 Prager 3.9S 130.5E 60.0 Prandtl 60.1S 141.8E 91.0 Priestley 57.3S 108.4E 52.0 Quetelet 43.1N 134.9W 55.0 Racah 13.8S 179.8W 63.0 Raimond 14.6N 159.3W 70.0 Ramsay 40.2S 144.5E 81.0 Razumov 39.1N 114.3W 70.0 Ricco 75.6N 176.3E 65.0 Richardson 31.1N 100.5E 141.0 Ritz 15.1S 92.2E 51.0 Roberts 71.1N 174.5W 89.0 Robertson 21.8N 105.2W 88.0 Roche 42.3S 136.5E 160.0 Röntgen 33.0N 91.4W 126.0 Rosseland 41.0S 131.0E 75.0 Rowland 57.4N 162.5W 171.0 Rozhdestvenskiy 85.2N 155.4W 177.0 Rumford 28.8S 169.8W 61.0 Rynin 47.0N 103.5W 75.0 Saenger 4.3N 102.4E 75.0 Saha 1.6S 102.7E 99.0 Sanford 32.6N 138.9W 55.0 Sarton 49.3N 121.1W 69.0 Scaliger 27.1S 108.9E 84.0 Schaeberle 26.2S 117.2E 62.0 Schjellerup 69.7N 157.1E 62.0 Schlesinger 47.4N 138.6W 97.0 Schliemann 2.1S 155.2E 80.0 Schneller 41.8N 163.6W 54.0 Schrödinger 75.0S 132.4E 312.0 Schuster 4.2N 146.5E 108.0 Schwarzschild 70.1N 121.2E 212.0 Seares 73.5N 145.8E 110.0 Sechenov 7.1S 142.6W 62.0 Seidel 32.8S 152.2E 62.0 Seyfert 29.1N 114.6E 110.0 Sharonov 12.4N 173.3E 74.0 Shayn 32.6N 172.5E 93.0 Shirakatsi 12.1S 128.6E 51.0 Shternberg (Sternberg) 19.5N 116.3W 70.0 Siedentopf 22.0N 135.5E 61.0 Sierpinski 27.2S 154.5E 69.0 Sikorsky 66.1S 103.2E 98.0 Sklodowska 18.2S 95.5E 127.0 Slipher 49.5N 160.1E 69.0 Smoluchowski 60.3N 96.8W 83.0 Sommerfeld 65.2N 162.4W 169.0 Spencer Jones 13.3N 165.6E 85.0 St. John 10.2N 150.2E 68.0 Stebbins 64.8N 141.8W 131.0 Stefan 46.0N 108.3W 125.0 Sternfeld 19.6S 141.2W 100.0 Stetson 39.6S 118.3W 64.0 Störmer 57.3N 146.3E 69.0 Stratton 5.8S 164.6E 70.0 Strömgren 21.7S 132.4W 61.0 Subbotin 29.2S 135.3E 67.0 Sumner 37.5N 108.7E 50.0 Szilard 34.0N 105.7E 122.0 Teisserenc 32.2N 135.9W 62.0 Ten Bruggencate 9.5S 134.4E 59.0 Thiessen 75.4N 169.0W 66.0 Thomson 32.7S 166.2E 117.0 Tikhomirov 25.2N 162.0E 65.0 Tikhov 62.3N 171.7E 83.0 Timiryazev 5.5S 147.0W 53.0 Tiselius 7.0N 176.5E 53.0 Titius 26.8S 100.7E 73.0 Trumpler 29.3N 167.1E 77.0 Tsander 6.2N 149.3W 181.0 Tseraskiy (Cerasky) 49.0S 141.6E 56.0 Tsiolkovskiy 21.2S 128.9E 185.0 Valier 6.8N 174.5E 67.0 Van de Graaff 27.4S 172.2E 233.0 Van del Waals 43.9S 119.9E 104.0 Van Maanen 35.7N 128.0E 60.0 van't Hoff 62.1N 131.8W 92.0 Vavilov 0.8S 137.9W 98.0 Vening Meinesz 0.3S 162.6E 87.0 Ventris 4.9S 158.0E 95.0 Vernadskiy 23.2N 130.5E 91.0 Vertregt 19.8S 171.1E 187.0 Vesalius 3.1S 114.5E 61.0 Vestine 33.9N 93.9E 96.0 Vetchinkin 10.2N 131.3E 98.0 Volterra 56.8N 132.2E 52.0 von Békésy 51.9N 126.8E 96.0 von der Pahlen 24.8S 132.7W 56.0 Von Kármán 44.8S 175.9E 180.0 Von Neumann 40.4N 153.2E 78.0 von Zeipel 42.6N 141.6W 83.0 Wan-Hoo 9.8S 138.8W 52.0 Waterman 25.9S 128.0E 76.0 Watson 62.6S 124.5W 62.0 Wegener 45.2N 113.3W 88.0 Wexler 69.1S 90.2E 51.0 Weyl 17.5N 120.2W 108.0 Wiener 40.8N 146.6E 120.0 Wilsing 21.5S 155.2W 73.0 Winlock 35.6N 105.6W 64.0 Wood 43.0N 120.8W 78.0 Wyld 1.4S 98.1E 93.0 Yablochkov 60.9N 128.3E 99.0 Yamamoto 58.1N 160.9E 76.0 Zeeman 75.2S 133.6W 190.0 Zelinskiy 28.9S 166.8E 53.0 Zhukovskiy 7.8N 167.0W 81.0 Zsigmondy 59.7N 104.7W 65.0 Zwicky 15.4S 168.1E 150.0