Hyperboreus Lacus
What Hyperboreus Lacus is
Hyperboreus Lacus is an albedo feature — a region named for how bright or dark it appears from a distance — on Mars, centred at 74.8° N, 60.0° W in the Mare Boreum quadrangle.
Where the name comes from
Far northern lake. The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 1958.
What it would take to settle Hyperboreus Lacus
Mars scores 26.6 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 74.8° N, 60.0° W.
What this spot has going for it is water — inside the polar zone where Mars keeps its ice. What works against it is sunlight — 48% of the sunlight the sunniest latitude on Mars gets.
Computed from Hyperboreus Lacus's catalogued latitude, longitude and feature class — 74% of the model's weight had a basis here, and 2 axes were dropped as not applicable to Mars (radiation geometry, earth link). Gravity, pressure, delta-v and distance from the Sun are the same everywhere on Mars 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.