Africanus Horton (crater)

Africanus Horton
Planet Mercury
Coordinates 50°30′S 42°00′W / 50.5°S 42°W / -50.5; -42Coordinates: 50°30′S 42°00′W / 50.5°S 42°W / -50.5; -42
Diameter 120 km
Eponym Africanus Horton

Africanus Horton is a crater on Mercury. It was named after Africanus Horton, a Creole African nationalist writer and an esteemed medical surgeon in the British Army from Freetown, Sierra Leone.

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