after mythological names associated with Mercury; escarpments are called rupes and are named after the ships of famous explorers; long, narrow depressions...

century, containing a description of the North Pole as a magnetic island (the Rupes Nigra) surrounded by a giant whirlpool and four continents. No direct extracts...

the Bay of Whales in Antarctica during his quest for the South Pole Fram Rupes, an escarpment on Mercury Fram crater, a small crater on Mars, visited by...

According to certain authors, the Jabal Qaf of Muslim cosmology is a version of Rupes Nigra, a mountain whose ascent, like Dante's climbing of the Mountain of...

was named in 1910, long before the discovery of the wreck there. Terror Rupes an escarpment on Mercury Terror Street in the suburb of Keilor Park in Melbourne...

attracted to a hypothetical "magnetic island" somewhere in the far north (see Rupes Nigra), or to Polaris, the pole star. The idea that Earth itself acts as...

reference a fourteenth-century English friar and mathematician who used an astrolabe to survey the septentrional regions. The four channels carry the sea towards...

visited the islands in 1820–21. Also named after Palmer's sloop Hero is Hero Rupes, an escarpment which was discovered in the southern hemisphere of the planet...

Alexander Island in Antarctic, discovered by Bellingshausen in 1821. Vostok Rupes, a mountain chain on planet Mercury. Vostok Station, a Russian Antarctic...

ammunition. A 425 km-long (264 mi) scarp on Mercury has been named Belgica Rupes by the International Astronomical Union based on a suggestion by the MESSENGER...