Craters of the Moon National Monument
Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve is a United States national monument in the Snake River Plain of Central Idaho. The park was created to protect a vast landscape of lava flows with scattered islands of cinder cones and sagebrush.Photo: Maveric149, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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- Type: Park
- Description: national monument in the United States
- Also known as: “Craters of the Moon National Monument & Preserve”, “Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve”, “CRMO”, and “CRMP”
Craters of the Moon National Monument
- Category: protected area
- Location: Butte, Central Idaho, Idaho, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude
43.2332° or 43° 13′ 60″ northLongitude
-113.4008° or 113° 24′ 3″ westElevation
5,702 feet (1,738 metres)Open location code
85M86HMX+7MOpenStreetMap ID
node 358669160GeoNames ID
5590125Wikidata ID
Q1139053
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Craters of the Moon National Monument” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “محمية وفوهات نصب القمر الوطني”
- Cebuano: “Craters of the Moon National Monument”
- Chinese: “月坑国家名胜及保护区”
- Chinese: “月坑國家名勝及保護區”
- Dutch: “Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve”
- French: “Craters of the moon national monument”
- French: “Craters of the Moon National Monument”
- French: “Craters Of The Moon National Monument”
- French: “Craters of the Moon”
- French: “Monument national et réserve de Craters of the Moon”
- French: “monument national et réserve nationale Craters of the Moon”
- French: “Monument national et réserve nationale Craters of the Moon”
- German: “Craters of the Moon National Monument”
- German: “Craters of the Moon”
- Hebrew: “מונומנט הלאומי מכתשי הירח”
- Italian: “Monumento e riserva nazionale Craters of the Moon”
- Malay: “Gunung Berapi Medan Lava Wapi”
- Malay: “Gunung Berapi Wapi Lava Field”
- Polish: “Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve”
- Portuguese: “Reserva e Monumento Nacional das Crateras da Lua”
- Russian: “Лунные кратеры (национальный монумент)”
- Russian: “Лунные кратеры (национальный памятник)”
- Russian: “Лунные Кратеры”
- Swedish: “Craters of the Moon nationalmonument”
- Ukrainian: “Національний парк ‘Місячні кратери’”
- Ukrainian: “Національний парк «Місячні кратери»”
- Uzbek: “Oy kraterlari”
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