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A breast-shaped hill is a hill in the shape of a breast. Some such hills are named "Pap", an archaic word for
the breast or nipple of a woman. Such anthropomorphic geographic features are found in different places of the
world and in some cultures they were 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.[1]

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The name Mamucium that gave origin to the name of the city of Manchester is thought to derive from the Celtic
language meaning "breast-shaped hill", referring to the sandstone bluff on which the fort stood; this later A breast-shaped hill in the Western
[2][3]
evolved into the name Manchester. Sahara

Breast-shaped hills are often connected with local ancestral veneration of the breast as a symbol of fertility and
well-being. It is not uncommon for very old archaeological sites to be located in or below such hills, as on
Samson, Isles of Scilly, where there are large ancient burial grounds both on the North Hill and South Hill,[4][5]
or Burrén and Burrena, Aragon, Spain, where two Iron Age Urnfield culture archaeological sites lie beneath the
hills.[6]

Many of the myths surrounding these mountains are ancient and enduring and some have been recorded in
the oral literature or written texts; for example, in an unspecified location in Asia, there was a mountain known
as "Breast Mountain" with a cave in which the Buddhist monk Bodhidharma (Da Mo) spent a long time in
meditation.[7] There is an ancient Iberian
archaeological site beneath the Mola
Travelers and cartographers in colonial times often changed the ancestral names of such hills. The mountain Murada, one of the mountains of the
known to the Indigenous Australian people as Didhol or Dithol (Woman's Breast) was renamed Pigeon House Moles de Xert, Spain.

Mountain by Captain James Cook at the time of his exploration of

Australia's eastern coast in 1770.[8]

Mamelon (from French "nipple") is a French name for a breast-shaped

hillock.[9] 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
The "Breasts of Aphrodite" in
Mykonos, Greece. 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.[10] The Mamelon Central, formed by
the Bory and Dolomieu craters, Piton
de la Fournaise, on 28 brumaire 1801.
Africa [ edit ]
Drawing by Jean-Baptiste Bory de
African Great Lakes Saint-Vincent.

Mount Elgon on the Uganda-Kenya border

Sweet Sixteen, Matthews Range (Ldoinyo Lenkiyio), Laikipia district, Rift Valley Province, northern
Kenya.[11]
Horn of Africa

Naasa Hablood in Somaliland

Indian Ocean

Trois Mamelles mountains in the west of Mauritius

Mamelles Island, Seychelles
Southern Africa The thelarchic-shaped Naasa
Hablood in Somaliland (1896)
Omatako Mountain south-west of Otjiwarongo in Namibia
Sheba's Breasts, Eswatini; these formations inspired British writer H. Rider Haggard, who included them in
his novel King Solomon's Mines.[12]
Three Sisters in the Northern Cape, South Africa
West Africa

Deux Mamelles, Pointe des Almadies, Cap-Vert, Senegal

Antarctica [ edit ]

Una Peaks, long known as Una's Tits colloquially, at the entrance to the Lemaire Channel, Graham Land View of one of the Trois Mamelles
Nipple Peak, Palmer Archipelago, Graham Land in Mauritius. Drawing from page 121 of
Atlas by Jacques-Gérard Milbert.
Hemus Peak, Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands

Asia [ edit ]
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China

Dazeshan Mountain in Shandong Province

Wuyi Mountain in Fujian Province
Twin Breasts Peak in Tianzhu Mountain in Anhui Province
Qianling Mausoleum near Xian, their shape is man-made Khao Nom Nang in Western
Thailand.
Two Breast Peaks (Chinese: 雙乳峰):
two mountains in Zhenfeng County, Guizhou Province
two peaks of Golden Needle Mountain (Chinese: 雙乳峰) in Taimali Township, Taitung County, Taiwan

Rushan (meaning "Breast Mountain") is a mountain in Weihai, Shandong Province, China.

Middle East

Tell Sader al-Arus (translation from Arabic: "Breast of the bride") is a mountain in the Golan Heights.
Philippines

Chocolate Hills, more than a thousand unusual geological formations in Bohol. A popular tourist destination
named for their brown colour in the summer.
Ilihan Hill, "Watery Breast", a pilgrimage site about four kilometres from Jagna, Bohol
Kagmasuso, among other breast-shaped hills in San Andrés, Catanduanes[14]
Mount Susong Dalaga (literally "Maiden's Breasts Mountain") is the name of several peaks in the
Philippines, including:
Mount Susong Dalaga, Abra de Ilog, Occidental Mindoro[15]
Chocolate Hills in Bohol, Philippines
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 in between the provinces of
Batangas, Laguna, and Quezon
Mt. Tagapo (also known as Mount Susong Dalaga), Talim Island, two huge conical hills that are the highest peaks of Talim Island.

Musuan Peak, an active volcano in Maramag, Bukidnon

Thailand

Doi Phu Nom (ดอยภูนม), Phayao Province, a breast-shaped hill rising in an area of grassland of the Phi Pan Nam Range.[16]
Khao Nom (เขานม), was one of the former names of Khanom, a district of Nakhon Si Thammarat Province, due to the surrounding mountains.[17]
Khao Nom Nang, a hill at Huai Krachao, Kanchanaburi. 14°18′00″N 99°43′00″E
Khao Nom Nang, (เขานมนาง), a hill north of Pak Phraek, Kanchanaburi. 14°05′00″N 99°34′00″E
Khao Nom Nang, a hill between Nong Pet and Chong Sadao, Kanchanaburi. 14°21′02″N 99°12′53″E
Khao Nom Nang, an isolated hill in Khok Samae San, Lopburi. 15°19′00″N 100°51′00″E
Khao Nom Nang, an isolated large hill in Khao Kala, Nakhon Sawan Province. 15°34′00″N 100°17′00″E
Khao Nom Nang, the name of two hills west of Doeng Bang Nam Buat, Suphan Buri. 14°51′00″N 100°04′00″E
Khao Nom Sao (เขานมสาว), "female breast mountain", a mountain located in Ranong Province, Thailand.
Khao Nom Sao, a round hill east of Phet Kasem road in Prachuap Khiri Khan Province. 10°59′00″N 99°22′00″E
Khao Nom Sao, a mountain in Chumphon Province. 09°46′00″N 98°43′01″E
Khao Nom Sao, a hill in Phang Nga Province, part of a greater mountain system. 08°58′00″N 98°28′00″E
Khao Nom Wang (เขานมวังก), a small hill just east of the main road at Phanom Wang, Khuan Khanun District, also known as Khao Phanom Wang,
Phatthalung Province. 07°40′58″N 100°01′01″E
Ko Nom Sao (Thai: เกาะนมสาว, lit. female breast island) are twin islands located in the Phang Nga Bay,[18] Phang Nga Province, Thailand.
Ko Nom Sao in Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park, Prachuap Khiri Khan Province.[19] 12°13′N 100°01′E
Ko Nom Sao, an island off the shore in Chanthaburi Province.[20][21] 12°28′N 102°01′E

Europe [ edit ]

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 Deganwy Castle
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.[22]
Samson, Isles of Scilly
Twmbarlwm near Risca, Wales
Paps of Anu. View of the western
Wittenham Clumps in Oxfordshire
Pap from the eastern Pap, Ireland.
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 Ages.
Germany

Lilienstein in Saxon Switzerland, Germany

Greece

Breasts of Aphrodite in Mykonos, Greece

Hungary

Sashegy
Marens Patter (literally "Maren's
Iceland
breasts") in Denmark.
Vatnsdalshólar
Slovenia

Šmarna gora or Mount Saint Mary north of Ljubljana

Spain

Tetica de Bacares or "La Tetica", a 2,086 m (6,488 ft) high mountain in the Sierra de Los Filabres, Spain.[23]
Picos de Busampiro [es], commonly known as Tetas de Lierganes, in Cantabria
Tetas de Viana, La Alcarria, Guadalajara Province
Puig de Mamelles, Felanitx, Mallorca
Ses Mamelles, another name for the 714 m (2343 ft) high Puig des Castellot, Escorca, Mallorca
Turó de la Mamella, a mountain near Vacarisses, Catalonia
Burrén and Burrena[24] near Fréscano, Aragon

North and Central America [ edit ]

Canada

Anû Kathâ Îpa in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta

El Salvador

San Vicente, also known as Chichontepec, the mountain of the two breasts in Nahuat, a stratovolcano in El
Salvador Spanish Peaks, Colorado

Guadeloupe

Mamelles, Guadeloupe
Haiti

Morne Deux Mamelles, Haiti

Mexico

Las Tetas de Juana, San Pedro Municipality, Coahuila

Tres Tetas Mountain or El Chichión in Costa Grande of Guerrero
Nicaragua
Las Tetas de Cayey in Salinas,
Ometepe, in Lake Nicaragua. Legend says that the island's volcanoes Maderas and Concepción formed Puerto Rico

from the breasts of Ometepetl, a daughter of the Niquirano tribe.[25]

Panamá

Cerro La Teta in Las Guabas

Puerto Rico

Cerro Las Tetas in Salinas, Puerto Rico

Tetas de Cerro Gordo in San Germán, Puerto Rico
United States

Bubble Mountains, in Acadia National Park of Maine.[26]

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, 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.
The Bubbles on Jordan Pond in
Pinnacle Mountain, Arkansas, near Maumelle. During the colonial and early American periods, the Acadia National Park
mountain was known as "Mamelle" mountain. "Mamelle" is a name commonly applied in the French-
speaking parts of the world to a breast.[27]
Rock Mary, Caddo County, Oklahoma.
Spanish Peaks, Colorado, named Huajatolla by the Ute Indians, meaning "two breasts".[28]
Tetilla Peak, Caja del Rio, New Mexico. "Tetilla" is Spanish for "nipple".
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;[29]
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.[30] 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.[31]
Mollie's Nipple or Molly's Nipple is the name given to as many as seven peaks and some other geological features in Utah.[32]
Tunas Peak located in Pecos County, Texas west of Bakersfield.[33]
Betsy Bell and Mary Gray, two adjacent hills in Staunton, Virginia.

Oceania [ edit ]

Australia

Pigeon House Mountain, New South Wales, Australia

Black Mountain (Australian Capital Territory) and Mount Ainslie, the space between being known as
Canberra, meaning cleavage between the two 'breasts' of those mountains.[34]
Mammaloid Hills, Victoria, Australia
New Zealand

Saddle Hill, Dunedin, New Zealand Saddle Hill, as seen from Lookout
Point, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Harbour Cone, Dunedin, New Zealand

South America [ edit ]

Argentina

Cerro Tres Tetas, in Santa Cruz[35]

Cerro Teta in Neuquén.
Ñuñorco Grande, in Tucumán.
Los Nonos, in Nono, Córdoba.
Bolivia

Cerro Tres Tetas in Potosí, Bolivia

Chile

Sierra Teta, Futaleufú, Chile

Tetas del Biobío, formed by Cerro Teta Norte and Cerro Teta Sur, located in the mouth of the Biobío River, Chile.
Colombia

Cerro La Teta, La Guajira

Morro La Teta, El Carmen de Viboral, Antioquia
Pico Tetari, Serranía del Perijá, La Guajira
Cuba

Tetas de Santa Teresa, Baracoa, Cuba

French Guiana
Cerro Batoví, Tacuarembó,
Les Mamelles Islets, French Guiana
Uruguay.
Peru

Cerro Tetas, Chiclayo Province, Peru

Uruguay

Cerro Batoví, in Tacuarembó. Batoví means breast of a virgin in the Guaraní language.[36]
Cerro Pan de Azúcar (Sugarloaf Hill), in the Maldonado Department
Venezuela

Tetas de María Guevara, Isla Margarita, Venezuela

Teta de Niquitao, Trujillo State, Venezuela[37]
Cerro de Las Tetas, Tinaquillo, Cojedes, Venezuela
Cerro las Tres Tetas, Barquisimeto, Venezuela

Gallery [ edit ]

Seal of La Colle- Church tower at Pennant Las Tetas de Lierganes, Cerro Las Tetas, Salinas, Hill by Lake Elgygytgyn,
Saint-Michel former Melangell with the breast- Cantabria, Spain Puerto Rico, as seen from the Chukotka, Russia
commune with two shaped hill in the background PR-52 northbound rest area at
golden breast- km 49.0
shaped hills
(Mamelons)

See also [ edit ]

Maiden Paps (disambiguation)

Mamelon (fort)
Mamelon (volcanology)
Mamucium
Monadnock
Mountains and hills of Scotland
Phallic Rock, a rock in Arizona, United States
St Melangell's Church, Pennant Melangell
The Sleeping Lady

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External links [ edit ]

Stuart McHardy, The Goddess in the Landscape of Scotland

The Gododdin triangle by Philip Coppens
Yakima Herald-Republic - State Changes Name of Hill (Squaw Tit) to Pushtay
Mark Monmonier, From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame

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