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Dorsa Lister
Dorsa Lister, a lunar wrinkle ridge system in eastern Mare Serenitatis, southern segment of the Serpentine Ridge with Dorsa Smirnov; IAU named 1976 for Martin Lister, about 180 km gazetteer diameter.
Dorsa Mawson
Dorsa Mawson is a lunar wrinkle ridge system in Mare Fecunditatis, IAU-approved in 1979, diameter 142.71 km at 7.77S 52.48E, named for Antarctic explorer Douglas Mawson.
Dorsa Rubey
Dorsa Rubey is a lunar wrinkle ridge system, about 100.64 km long at 9.88°S, 42.36°W near crater Letronne, IAU-approved in 1976 and named for American geologist William Walden Rubey (1898-1974).
Dorsa Smirnov
Dorsa Smirnov, a 221.78-km lunar wrinkle ridge system in eastern Mare Serenitatis, northern half of the Serpentine Ridge; IAU named 1976 for Soviet Earth scientist Sergei Sergeevich Smirnov.
Dorsa Sorby
Dorsa Sorby is a lunar wrinkle ridge system in southern Mare Serenitatis, near side, about 76 km long at 18.65°N 13.70°E, IAU-approved in 1976 and named for British Earth scientist Henry Clifton Sorby (1826-1908).
Dorsa Tetyaev
Dorsa Tetyaev is a 187.53-km lunar wrinkle ridge system along the eastern edge of Mare Crisium, IAU-approved in 1979 and named for Soviet geologist Mikhail Mikhailovich Tetyaev (1882-1956).
Dorsa Whiston
Dorsa Whiston (Whiston Dorsum system) is a ~221 km linear wrinkle ridge in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon's nearside, formed by thrust faulting of mare basalt and named for astronomer William Whiston.
Dorset
Dorset, a county in South West England, has been run since 1 April 2019 by two unitary councils, Dorset Council and Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council, replacing nine councils; rural, ageing population, Jurassic Coast, £8.1 billion economy.
Dorset Cursus
The Dorset Cursus is the largest Neolithic cursus monument in the British Isles, a roughly 10 km bank-and-ditch enclosure on Cranborne Chase, Dorset, built in two stages (Gussage and Pentridge) around 3610–3380 cal BC.
Dorsey Island
Dorsey Island (Spanish: Dorsey, Isla) is an ice-covered Antarctic island at about 70°22'S, 71°30'W in the Wilkins Ice Shelf region near Alexander Island, notable for a rare 2-by-2-km sea lake at its northeast end.
Dorsten-Holsterhausen
Dorsten-Holsterhausen is a district of Dorsten, Germany, known for traces of up to ten Roman military camps from the campaigns around the turn of the era.
Dorsum Arduino
Dorsum Arduino, a 99.73 km lunar wrinkle ridge centered at 24.77N, 36.27W, IAU-approved 1976 and named for Giovanni Arduino, Italian Earth scientist (1713-1795) who coined Tertiary.
Dorsum Azara
Dorsum Azara is a lunar wrinkle ridge about 103 km long in western Mare Serenitatis, west of Dorsa Smirnov, with a low crest under 200 m.
Dorsum Bucher
Dorsum Bucher, a lunar wrinkle ridge (dorsum) 84.65 km across at 30.76°N, 39.55°W, IAU-approved 1976 and named for American geologist Walter Herman Bucher (1889–1965).
Dorsum Buckland
Dorsum Buckland, a 396 km wrinkle ridge in western Mare Serenitatis on the Moon, IAU-named 1976 for geologist William Buckland; basalt-compression ridge with boulders imaged by LROC.
Dorsum Cayeux
Dorsum Cayeux, a lunar wrinkle ridge in Mare Fecunditatis at 0.76°N 51.22°E, 95.14 km long, IAU-named 1976 for French sedimentary petrographer Lucien Cayeux (1864-1944).
Dorsum Cloos
Dorsum Cloos is a lunar wrinkle ridge (dorsum) about 103 km long near 1.15°N, 90.41°E on the Moon, IAU-named in 1976 for German geologist Hans Cloos (1885–1951).
Dorsum Cushman
Dorsum Cushman, a lunar wrinkle ridge (dorsum) near 1.4°N 49.2°E, 85.65 km across, IAU-approved 1976 and named for American micropaleontologist Joseph Augustine Cushman (1881–1949).
Dorsum Grabau
Dorsum Grabau, a 123.69 km wrinkle ridge in Mare Imbrium on the Moon north of Timocharis crater, IAU-approved in 1976 and named for American paleontologist Amadeus William Grabau (1870-1946).
Dorsum Heim
Dorsum Heim is a 146.79-km wrinkle ridge (dorsum) in western Mare Imbrium on the Moon, centered at 32.20°N, 29.83°W, named for Swiss Earth scientist Albert Heim and IAU-approved in 1976.
Dorsum Oppel
Dorsum Oppel is a 297.62-km IAU-named lunar wrinkle ridge in western Mare Crisium, approved 1976 for German paleontologist Albert Oppel; modeled as a 60°-dip reverse fault with 4,300 m displacement.
Dorsum Scilla
Dorsum Scilla, a lunar wrinkle ridge (dorsum) about 108 km long in northern Oceanus Procellarum at 32.34N, 60.00W; IAU-approved 1976 and named for Italian geologist Agostino Scilla (1639-1700).
Dorsum Termier
Dorsum Termier is an 89.65 km IAU-approved lunar wrinkle ridge in south-southwestern Mare Crisium at 11.63°N, 57.15°E, approved in 1976 and named for French geologist Pierre-Marie Termier (1859-1930).
Dorsum Von Cotta
Dorsum Von Cotta, a lunar wrinkle ridge (dorsum) in western Mare Serenitatis at 23.60N 11.95E, 183 km long, IAU-named 1976 for German Earth scientist Carl Bernard von Cotta (1808-1879).
Dorsum Zirkel
Dorsum Zirkel, a lunar wrinkle ridge (dorsum) in Mare Imbrium running northwest from crater Lambert, about 195 km long, IAU-approved 1976, named for German geologist Ferdinand Zirkel (1838-1912).
Dort Oba
Dort Oba (Дорт-Оба, also Pastak) is a 4th-century BC Scythian elite kurgan near Simferopol, Crimea, excavated in 1892 by Veselovsky; Artamonov called it the closest match to Herodotus' royal funeral.
Dorticum
Dorticum (Vrav, Bulgaria): early Roman fort and vicus on the Danube in Moesia, Augustan or Tiberian founding, attested in the Peutinger map and Antonine Itinerary, garrisoned by cohors I Cretum, never excavated and heavily looted.
Dortmund
Dortmund, a kreisfreie city in North Rhine-Westphalia's Ruhr region, had 612,165 residents in 2025 and ranks ninth among German cities. A former coal, steel, and beer center, it is now a technology hub, home of Borussia Dortmund and Germany's largest stadium.
Dorylaeum
Dorylaeum (Greek Dorylaion) was a city of northern Phrygia in Asia Minor, at the Şarhöyük mound near modern Eskişehir, Turkey, occupied from the 3rd millennium BC to the 12th century AD.
Dos Hermanas, Andalusia
Dos Hermanas is a city about 14 km south of Seville in Andalusia, Spain, and the province's second most populous municipality, with 145,143 inhabitants in 2026.