Promontorium Laplace

Promontorium Laplace is a raised mountainous cape situated at the end of Montes Jura in Mare Imbrium on the near side of the Moon. Its selenographic coordinates are 46.0° N, 26.0° W and it is 2600 meters high. It is the east beginning of the bay of Sinus Iridum.

It is named after Pierre Simon marquis de Laplace, an 18th-century French astronomer, mathematician and physicist.