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Tholi on Venus

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Ale Tholus

Ale Tholus is an 87-km-wide tholus (volcanic dome) on Venus at 68.2°N, 247.0°E, named in 1985 by the IAU after Ale, the Igbo goddess who created Earth and vegetation.

Angerona Tholus

Angerona Tholus is a 200-km-wide volcanic dome (tholus) on Venus at 29.8S, 287.2E in the Themis Regio quadrangle, named in 1997 for the Italian goddess of silence.

Angrboda Tholus

Angrboda Tholus is an 80-km-wide tholus (volcanic dome) on Venus at 73.8°S, 116°E, in quadrangle V-57; IAU-named in 1997 after the Norse Titaness Angrboda, mother of three monsters.

Ashtart Tholus

Ashtart Tholus is a 138-km-wide tholus (volcanic dome) on Venus at 48.7N, 247.0E, IAU-approved in 1985 and named for the Phoenician goddess of love, fertility and war.

Bast Tholus

Bast Tholus, a Venusian tholus (small domical volcanic hill), 83 km wide at 57.8°N, 130.3°E, IAU-named in 1985 for the Egyptian goddess of joy.

Evaki Tholus

Evaki Tholus is a 200 km wide tholus (domical volcanic hill) on Venus at 37.60°N, 342.20°E, named in 1997 by the IAU after the Brazilian Amazonian sleep goddess Evaki.

Ezili Tholus

Ezili Tholus, also Ezili Tholi, is a 150 km diameter volcanic dome (tholus) on Venus at 23.7N, 91.3E in Niobe Planitia quadrangle V-23, named in 2006 for the Benin goddess of sweet water, beauty, and love.

Furki Tholus

Furki Tholus is a 79-km-wide volcanic dome (tholus) on Venus at 35.90°N, 236.40°E, IAU-approved in 1997, named for a Chechen and Ingush goddess, wife of thunder god Sela; formerly Furki Mons.

Grechukha Tholi

Grechukha Tholi, a 200 km tholus (domical volcanic hill group) on Venus at 8.6 S, 255.8 E, IAU-approved 2000, named for a Ukrainian field deity; among Venus's largest tholi.

Ignirtoq Tholi

Ignirtoq Tholi, a 90-km-wide group of volcanic domes (tholi) on Venus at -50.98°, 222.80°, named in 2023 for an Inuit lightning goddess; formerly part of Raskova Paterae.

Ismo Tholi

Ismo Tholi, a 125-km-wide tholus (volcanic dome) on Venus at 29.71°S, 213.34°E in quadrangle V-51, named for a Finnish wind goddess and IAU-approved May 5, 2023.

Kwannon Tholus

Kwannon Tholus is a volcanic dome, or tholus, on Venus, about 135 km across, located in the Themis Regio quadrangle and named for the Japanese Buddhist goddess of mercy.

Lama Tholus

Lama Tholus is a 110-km-wide tholus, a dome-shaped volcanic feature, on Venus at 7.8°N, 266.0°E in quadrangle V-28, named in 2003 by the IAU for a Sumerian protective goddess.

Mahuea Tholus

Mahuea Tholus, a Venusian volcano (tholus) at 37.5S 164.7E named for a Maori fire goddess, with unusually viscous ridged flows and possible silicic lavas, mapped by Magellan.

Meiboia Tholus

Meiboia Tholus is an 85-km-wide tholus, a small domical volcanic hill, on Venus at 44.7S, 281.3E, named for the Greek bee goddess and adopted by the IAU in 1997.

Mentha Tholus

Mentha Tholus, formerly Mentha Mons, is a 79-km-wide tholus (domical hill) on Venus at 43.0N, 237.3E, IAU-approved in 1997 and named for the Roman goddess of the human mind.

Nipa Tholus

Nipa Tholus is a 140-km-wide volcanic dome (tholus) on Venus at 8.40° N, 255.70° E in the Hecate Chasma quadrangle V-28, named for the Algonquin moon goddess and IAU-approved in 2003.

Otafuku Tholi

Otafuku Tholi is an 80-km-wide pair of steep-sided volcanic hills (tholus) on Venus at 28.70°N, 46.30°E, on the flank of Tepev Mons in Bell Regio; IAU-named 1997 for a Japanese goddess of joyfulness.

Oxomoco Tholus

Oxomoco Tholus is a 140-km-wide volcanic dome (tholus) on Venus at 32.28S, 218.99E, named by the IAU on May 5, 2023 for the Aztec moon and night goddess.

Padma Tholi

Padma Tholi, a group of steep-sided volcanic domes (tholi) on Venus in the Aino Planitia quadrangle, 100 km wide at 34.7S 68.3E, IAU-named in 2000 for the Hindu lotus goddess.

Pajan Yan Tholus

Pajan Yan Tholus is an 80-km-diameter tholus (domical volcanic hill) on Venus at 8.30 N, 252.20 E in the Hecate Chasma quadrangle V-28, an intermediate shield with radiating lava flows, named in 2003 for a Cambodian healing goddess.

Pakhet Tholus

Pakhet Tholus is a 111-km-wide volcanic dome (tholus) on Venus at 28.85°S, 221.45°E, in quadrangle V-51; named for an Egyptian lioness goddess, IAU-approved May 5, 2023.

Paoro Tholi

Paoro Tholi is a 225-km volcanic tholus on Venus at 10.5°N, 268.0°E, in the Hecate Chasma quadrangle (V-28); IAU named it in 2003 for the Māori goddess of echoes, mother figure of Marikoriko.

Perynya Tholus

Perynya Tholus is a 110-km-wide volcanic dome (tholus) on Venus at 0.7S, 353.2E, in quadrangle V-43, named in 2000 for the Slavic goddess, wife of thunderstorm god Perun.

Rosna Tholi

Rosna Tholi is a 130-km group of steep-sided volcanic domes on Venus at 25.5S, 73.3E in Aino Planitia, named in 1998 for a Mexican mountain goddess, on Nishtigri Corona's rim.

Semele Tholi

Semele Tholi, a Venusian tholus (domical volcanic hill), 194 km wide at 64.3°N 202.9°E, IAU-approved 1985, named for a Phrygian (Phoenician) Earth goddess.

Seoritsu Farra

Seoritsu Farra is the largest of Venus's nine named farra, a 230 km group of steep-sided pancake domes at 30°S 11°E near Alpha Regio, named for a Japanese stream goddess in 1994.

Sumerla Tholi

Sumerla Tholi is a 90-km-wide tholus, a domical volcanic hill, on Venus at 13.8S, 252.2E, named by the IAU in 2000 for an East Slavic underworld goddess.

Toci Tholus

Toci Tholus is a tholus, a domical volcanic hill, on Venus at 29.5°N, 355.1°E, IAU-named in 1997 for the Aztec earthquake goddess Toci; IAU diameter 300 km, listed as a small conical Group 3 volcano in the Eistla region.

Tursa Tholus

Tursa Tholus, a 75-km-wide tholus (dome-shaped hill) on Venus at 35.4°S, 205.2°E; IAU-approved 1997 and named for the Italian goddess of terror.