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In 1996, I was guest of honor at First Contact, a space and science fiction convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. During a break in the convention program, I was talking with Peter Kokh about candidate landing sites. It turns out we both favored the Mare Crisium region.
Peter suggested landing near the western shore of Mare Crisium; however I wanted to put the first lunar base closer to the moon's limb, mostly for show business reasons. That's why I had picked a little bay at the south end of Mare Anguus, about 72 E, 20 N; near the eastern shore of Mare Crisium.
Peter hurried off to look at his moon globe, and came back with a look of horror on his face. "Sea of Snakes?" he said.
"OK, so we'll call it Angus Bay," I replied.
And that's how Angus Bay got its name. It's a Scottish thing, y'see.
If you look on a lunar chart down near the southern regions of Mare Anguus, you'll see a W-shaped region of flat terrain surrounded by some rather rugged mountains. The westernmost of the two inlets is the region we have dubbed Angus Bay.
Related information in the Artemis Data Book
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