# Feia Lacus

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Lake on Titan

Feia Lacus Cassini synthetic aperture radar image of Feia Lacus, a hydrocarbon lake on Titan with several large peninsulas. Feature type Lacus Coordinates 73°42′N 64°24′W / 73.7°N 64.4°W / 73.7; -64.4 Diameter 47 km[note 1] Eponym Lagoa Feia

**Feia Lacus** is one of a number of [hydrocarbon seas and lakes](/source/Lakes_of_Titan) found on Saturn's largest moon, [Titan](/source/Titan_(moon)).[1] It was named in 2007[2] on the basis of data taken by the space probe *[Cassini](/source/Cassini%E2%80%93Huygens)*.[3]

The lake is located at [latitude](/source/Latitude) 73.7°[N](/source/North) and [longitude](/source/Longitude) 64.41° [W](/source/West) on Titan's globe,[4] and is composed of liquid [methane](/source/Methane) and [ethane](/source/Ethane).[5] At 47 [km](/source/Kilometer) in length it is moderately sized.[4] It is named after [Lagoa Feia](/source/Formosa%2C_Goi%C3%A1s#Tourist_Site) in [Brazil](/source/Brazil).[6]

Lagoa Feia in Brazil

## Notes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-qualifier_1-0)** The USGS web site gives the size as a "diameter", but it is actually the length in the longest dimension.

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [Map of the liquid bodies in the north polar region of Titan](https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/images/NP_lakes_low_noboundaries.pdf).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [Twelve New Names Approved for Use on Titan](https://archive.today/20140309070354/http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=25712).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [Rev195: Jul 15 – Aug 5 '13](http://www.ciclops.org/view/7662/Rev195?js=1) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20170909142059/http://www.ciclops.org/view/7662/Rev195?js=1) 2017-09-09 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine).

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-USGS_5-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-USGS_5-1) ["Feia Lacus"](https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/14316). *USGS planetary nomenclature page*. [USGS](/source/USGS). Retrieved 2013-12-28.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Coustenis2008_6-0)** Coustenis, A.; Taylor, F. W. (21 July 2008). [*Titan: Exploring an Earthlike World*](https://books.google.com/books?id=j3O47dxrDAQC&pg=PA154). [World Scientific](/source/World_Scientific). pp. 154–155. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-981-281-161-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-981-281-161-5).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** Robert Hanbury Brown, Jean-Pierre Lebreton, John H. Waite Titan from Cassini–Huygens.(Springer, 2009) [page 508](https://books.google.com/books?id=CBx9KDH1qaYC&dq=Feia+Lacus&pg=PA508).

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