Vasco da Gama

Crater (93.5 km) — Portuguese navigator, explorer (c. 1460-1524).

Coordinates

13.7807, -83.9386 (positive-east)

Descriptor

Crater

Feature type

Crater, craters

Feature type code

AA

Diameter km

93.516479

Etymology

Portuguese navigator, explorer (c. 1460-1524).

Iau approval status

Adopted by IAU

Iau approval year

1935

Iau reference

http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/6327

Clean name

Vasco da Gama

Ethnicity

Portugal

Continent

Europe

Quad

LAC-55

Primary source