Comrie (crater)

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Crater characteristics
Coordinates	23.3° S, 112.7° W
Diameter	59 km
Depth	Unknown
Colongitude	113° at sunrise
Eponym	Leslie J. Comrie

Comrie is a lunar crater. It is located on the rugged far side of the Moon relative to the Earth, beyond the western limb. Nearby craters of note include Ohm to the south-southwest, Shternberg to the southwest, and Parenago to the northeast.

This feature forms the central member of a formation of three connected craters. A slightly smaller crater is attached to the northern end, and the two share a straight rim. This crater also lies across the northern part of a larger, heavily worn feature to the south, and little of Comrie's rim survives along its southern extent. The remaining rim is worn and eroded.

Within the crater interior, a small crater lies near the northwest rim, a smaller crater just to the southwest of the mid-point, and a still smaller crater along the surviving southwest rim. There is a low central ridge at the mid-point. The eastern half of the interior floor is somewhat irregular, but contains only a few tiny craterlets. Streaks from the ray system of Ohm crater lie across the interior of Comrie crater, particularly in the western half.