Mons Cabeus
What Mons Cabeus is
Mons Cabeus is a mons — a mountain — on The Moon, 43 km across, centred at 83.7° S, 36.2° W in the Amundsen quadrangle. It is the 1129th largest named feature on The Moon and the 28th largest of its class there.
Where the name comes from
Named from nearby crater Cabeus. The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 2025, under the theme it applies to every mons on The Moon. Of the 57 features of this class catalogued on The Moon, the naming categories run Germany (9), France (6), Italy (5), Great Britain (4).
What it would take to settle Mons Cabeus
The Moon scores 29.1 as a world. That number is the same for every square metre of it — but sunlight, water, radiation and the ground under your feet are not. This is the same question asked at 83.7° S, 36.2° W.
What this spot has going for it is known ground — 52 km from LCROSS Probe (2009). What works against it is sunlight — 11% of the sunlight the sunniest latitude on The Moon gets.
Computed from Mons Cabeus's catalogued latitude, longitude and feature class — 84% of the model's weight had a basis here, and one axis was dropped as not applicable to The Moon (radiation geometry). Gravity, pressure, delta-v and distance from the Sun are the same everywhere on The Moon and are already counted in the world's own index, not again here.
What this cannot see: elevation. Slope, local shadowing and the polar “peaks of eternal light” — ridge tops near the poles of a barely tilted world that catch sun almost continuously while a crater floor kilometres away never does — need a terrain model this does not have. Where a real mission targets a pole, that is usually why.
What is next to it
The largest mons features on The Moon
All 57 montes on The Moon — mapped together, with the naming theme and the size distribution.