Breast-shaped hill

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Breast-shaped hills are anthropomorphic geographic features found in various parts of the world. In some traditional cultures they were once revered as the attributes of the Mother Goddess, such as the Paps of Anu, named after Anu, an important female deity of pre-Christian Ireland.[1] "Pap" is an archaic word for the breast or nipple of a woman. It is used in the name of a number of breast-shaped hills, particularly those with a small hilltop protuberance.[2]

A breast-shaped hill in Western Sahara
There is an ancient Iberian archaeological site beneath the Mola Murada, a breast-shaped hill in the Moles de Xert, Spain.

Overview

The Mamelon Central, formed by the Bory and Dolomieu craters, Piton de la Fournaise, on 28 brumaire 1801. Drawing by Jean-Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent.

The name Mamucium that gave origin to the name of the city of Manchester is thought to derive from a Celtic language name meaning "breast-shaped hill", referring to the sandstone bluff on which the fort stood; this later evolved into the name Manchester.[3][4]

Mamelon (from French "nipple") is a French name for a breast-shaped hillock.[5] Fort Mamelon was a famous hillock fortified by the Russians and captured by the French as part of the Siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War of the 1850s. The word mamelon is also used in volcanology to describe a particular rock formation of volcanic origin. The term was coined by the French explorer and naturalist Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent.[6]

Africa

The thelarchic-shaped Naasa Hablood in Somaliland (1896)
View of one of the Trois Mamelles in Mauritius. Drawing from page 121 of Atlas by Jacques-Gérard Milbert.

African Great Lakes

Horn of Africa

Indian Ocean

Jabal al-Nahdain in Sana’a, Yemen

North Africa

Southern Africa

West Africa

Antarctica

Asia

Khao Nom Nang in Western Thailand

Cambodia

China

Japan

  • Mount Tsukuba with double peaks, one considered male (Nantai-san) and one female (Nyotai-san).[2]

Malaysia

  • Hills on Dayang Bunting Island, Langkawi, named for their resemblance to a pregnant maiden.[12]

Middle East

  • Jabal Al Nahdain is a set of hills in the middle of Sana’a, Yemen. It was on the property of the Presidential Palace and is used as a weapons cache.
  • Tell Sader al-Arus [cs] (translation from Arabic: "Breast of the bride") is a mountain in the Golan Heights.

Philippines

  • Ilihan Hill, "Watery Breast", a pilgrimage site about four kilometres from Jagna, Bohol
  • Kagmasuso, among other breast-shaped hills in San Andres, Catanduanes[13]
  • Mount Susong Dalaga (literally "Maiden's Breasts Mountain") is the name of several peaks in the Philippines, including:

Russia

Thailand

Europe

Deganwy Castle
Paps of Anu. View of the western Pap from the eastern Pap, Ireland.

UK and Ireland

Marens Patter (literally "Maren's Tits") in Denmark

Denmark

  • Marens Patter (Maren's Tits), a pair of twin hills that has functioned as a landmark for seafarers since the Bronze Age.

Greece

Slovenia

Spain

France

North and Central America

Spanish Peaks, Colorado
Las Tetas de Cayey in Salinas, Puerto Rico

Canada

El Salvador

  • San Vicente, also known as Chichontepec, the mountain of the two breasts in Nahuat, a stratovolcano

Guadeloupe

Haiti

Mexico

Nicaragua

Panama

Puerto Rico

The Bubbles on Jordan Pond in Acadia National Park

United States

Oceania

Saddle Hill, as seen from Lookout Point, Dunedin, New Zealand

Australia

New Zealand

South America

Argentina

Bolivia

Chile

  • Sierra Teta, Futaleufú
  • Tetas del Biobío, formed by Cerro Teta Norte and Cerro Teta Sur, located in the mouth of the Biobío River.
Cerro Batoví, Tacuarembó, Uruguay

Colombia

Cuba

French Guiana

  • Les Mamelles Islets

Peru

Uruguay

Venezuela

See also

References

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