Breast-shaped hills are anthropomorphic geographic features found in various parts of the world. In some traditional cultures they were once revered as the attributes of the Mother Goddess, such as the Paps of Anu, named after Anu, an important female deity of pre-Christian Ireland. "" is an archaic word for the breast or nipple of a woman. It is used in the name of a number of breast-shaped hills, particularly those with a small hilltop protuberance.
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The name Mamucium that gave origin to the name of the city of Manchester is thought to derive from a Celtic language name meaning "breast-shaped hill", referring to the sandstone bluff on which the fort stood; this later evolved into the name Manchester.
Mamelon (from French "nipple") is a French name for a breast-shaped hillock. Fort Mamelon was a famous hillock fortified by the Russians and captured by the French as part of the Siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War of the 1850s. The word mamelon is also used in volcanology to describe a particular rock formation of volcanic origin. The term was coined by the French explorer and naturalist Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent.
Africa
African Great Lakes
Horn of Africa
Indian Ocean
North Africa
Southern Africa
West Africa
Antarctica
Asia
Cambodia
China
*two mountains in Zhenfeng County, Guizhou Province
*two peaks of Golden Needle Mountain () in Taimali Township, Taitung County, Taiwan
Japan
- Mount Tsukuba with double peaks, one considered male (Nantai-san) and one female (Nyotai-san).
Malaysia
- Hills on Dayang Bunting Island, Langkawi, named for their resemblance to a pregnant maiden.
Middle East
- Jabal Al Nahdain is a set of hills in the middle of SanaâÂÂa, Yemen. It was on the property of the Presidential Palace and is used as a weapons cache.
- (translation from Arabic: "Breast of the bride") is a mountain in the Golan Heights.
Philippines
*Mount Susong Dalaga, Abra de Ilog, Occidental Mindoro
*Mount Susong Dalaga (also known as Breast Peak) in Tampakan, South Cotabato
*Susong Dalaga Peak of Mount Batolusong, Tanay, Rizal
*Manabu Peak (also known as Mount Dalaga or Mount Susong Dalaga) of the Malepunyo Mountain Range between the provinces of Batangas, Laguna, and Quezon
*Mount Tagapo (also known as Mount Susong Dalaga), Talim Island, Rizal two huge conical hills that are the highest peaks of Talim Island.
Russia
Thailand
- Doi Phu Nom (), Phayao Province, a breast-shaped hill rising in an area of grassland of the Phi Pan Nam Range.
- Khao Nom (), was one of the former names of Khanom, a district of Nakhon Si Thammarat Province, due to the surrounding mountains.
- Khao Nom Nang, a hill at Huai Krachao, Kanchanaburi.
- Khao Nom Nang, (), a hill north of Pak Phraek, Kanchanaburi.
- Khao Nom Nang, a hill between Nong Pet and Chong Sadao, Kanchanaburi.
- Khao Nom Nang, an isolated hill in Khok Samae San, Lopburi.
- Khao Nom Nang, an isolated large hill in Khao Kala, Nakhon Sawan Province.
- Khao Nom Nang, the name of two hills west of Doeng Bang Nam Buat, Suphan Buri.
- Khao Nom Sao (), a mountain located in Ranong Province, Thailand.
- Khao Nom Sao, a round hill east of Phet Kasem road in Prachuap Khiri Khan Province.
- Khao Nom Sao, a mountain in Chumphon Province.
- Khao Nom Sao, a hill in Phang Nga Province, part of a greater mountain system.
- Khao Nom Wang (), a small hill just east of the main road at Phanom Wang, Khuan Khanun District, also known as Khao Phanom Wang, Phatthalung Province.
- Ko Nom Sao () are twin islands located in the Phang Nga Bay, Phang Nga Province.
- Ko Nom Sao in Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park, Prachuap Khiri Khan Province.
- Ko Nom Sao, an island off the shore in Chanthaburi Province.
Europe
UK and Ireland
- Mumbles, the two islands (on one of which stands a lighthouse) off the southeast corner of the Gower peninsula, Swansea, Wales
- Beinn Chìochan in the Grampians, Scotland
- Bennachie in Aberdeenshire, Scotland
- North Berwick Law in East Lothian, Scotland
- Mam Barisdale in Knoydart, Scotland
- Mynydd Llanwenarth near Abergavenny, Wales
- Mount Keen in Aberdeenshire / Angus, Scotland
- Northala Fields in London, England. Technically 4 hills, and artificial, but clearly resembling two "grassy boobs" from the A40
- A' Chioch in Ben More, Isle of Mull, Scotland
- Mam Sodhail, on the northern side of Glen Affric, some 30 kilometres east of Kyle of Lochalsh
- Mam Tor, near Castleton in the High Peak of Derbyshire, England.
- Samson, Isles of Scilly
- Twmbarlwm near Risca, Wales
- Wittenham Clumps in Oxfordshire
- Shutlingsloe, Cheshire
- Paps or Maiden Paps are rounded, breastlike hills located mostly in Scotland:
- Paps of Anu, near Killarney, Ireland
- Paps of Fife in Scotland
- Paps of Jura, on the western side of the island of Jura, in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland
- Paps of Lothian in Scotland
- Maiden Paps, twin hills in Caithness, Scotland
- Maiden Paps, twin hills in the Kilpatrick Hills, Scotland
- Maiden Paps, twin hills south of Hawick in the Scottish Borders, Scotland
- Maiden Paps, another name for the Tunstall Hills near Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England
- Maiden's Pap, another name for Schiehallion, Perth and Kinross, Scotland
- Pap of Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands
Denmark
- Marens Patter (Maren's Tits), a pair of twin hills that has functioned as a landmark for seafarers since the Bronze Age.
Greece
- Aphrodite's Breasts () â two hills in Mykonos
Slovenia
Spain
- Burrén and Burrena near Fréscano, Aragon
- Mola Murada near Valencia.
- , commonly known as Tetas de Lierganes, in Cantabria
- Puig de Mamelles, Felanitx, Mallorca
- Ses Mamelles, another name for the 714 m (2343 ft) high Puig des Castellot, Escorca, Mallorca
- Tetas de Viana, La Alcarria, Guadalajara Province
- Tetica de Bacares or "La Tetica", a 2,086 m (6,488 ft) high mountain in the Sierra de Los Filabres, Spain.
- Turó de la Mamella, a mountain near Vacarisses, Catalonia
France
North and Central America
Canada
El Salvador
- San Vicente, also known as Chichontepec, the mountain of the two breasts in Nahuat, a stratovolcano
Guadeloupe
Haiti
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Puerto Rico
United States
- Bubble Mountains, in Acadia National Park, Maine.
- Isanaklesh Peaks, in Maricopa County, Arizona, formerly known as Squaw Tits.
- Nippletop, in the Adirondack High Peaks of New York. During the later 19th century, it was euphemistically renamed "Dial Mountain", a name now officially applied to another nearby peak.
- Pilot Mountain, North Carolina. Referenced many times on The Andy Griffith Show as Mt. Pilot. Andy spoke about a wonderful place to travel called "Pilot" by the locals.
- Pinnacle Mountain, Arkansas, near Maumelle. During the colonial and early American periods, the mountain was known as "Mamelle" mountain. "Mamelle" is a name commonly applied in the French-speaking parts of the world to a breast.
- Rock Mary, Caddo County, Oklahoma.
- Spanish Peaks, Colorado, named Huajatolla by the Ute Indians, meaning "two breasts".
- Tetilla Peak, Caja del Rio, New Mexico. is Spanish for "nipple".
- Tatoosh Peak and Tatoosh Range, near Mount Rainier in Washington State. From the Chinook Jargon word for "breast".
- Teton Range. French-Canadian trappers named the Teton Mountains around 1820. The distinctive peaks appeared as Les Trois Tétons (The Three Breasts) as seen from the north;
- Grand Teton,
- Middle Teton,
- South Teton.
- Twin Peaks, in San Francisco, California. When the Spanish conquistadors and settlers arrived at the beginning of the 18th century, they called the area "Los Pechos de la Chola" or "Breasts of the Indian Maiden" and devoted the area to ranching. When San Francisco passed under American control during the 19th century, it was renamed "Twin Peaks".
- Maggie's Peaks, just west of Lake Tahoe, California.
- Uncanoonuc Mountains, Goffstown, New Hampshire. From a Native American word for a woman's breasts.
- Mollie's Nipple or Molly's Nipple is the name given to as many as seven peaks and some other geological features in Utah.
- Tunas Peak located in Pecos County, Texas, west of Bakersfield.
- Betsy Bell and Mary Gray, two adjacent hills in Staunton, Virginia.
- Little and Big House Mountain, two adjacent mountains in Lexington, Virginia, resemble breasts if viewed from Kerr's Creek.
Oceania
Australia
New Zealand
South America
Argentina
Bolivia
Chile
Colombia
Cuba
French Guiana
Peru
Uruguay
Venezuela
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