# Punga Mare

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Sea on Titan

Punga Mare Punga Mare from a false-color mosaic of synthetic aperture radar images of Titan's north polar region. A northern extension of Kraken Mare enters the view at lower right. Feature type Mare Coordinates 85°N 340°W / 85°N 340°W / 85; -340 Diameter 380 km[note 1] Eponym Punga

**Punga Mare** [/ˈpʌŋə/](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English)[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] is a [lake](/source/Lakes_of_Titan) in the north polar region of [Titan](/source/Titan_(moon)), the planet [Saturn](/source/Saturn)'s largest moon. After [Kraken Mare](/source/Kraken_Mare) and [Ligeia Mare](/source/Ligeia_Mare), it is the third largest known body of liquid on Titan.[1] It is composed of liquid [hydrocarbons](/source/Hydrocarbon) (mainly [methane](/source/Methane) and [ethane](/source/Ethane)). Located almost adjacent to the north pole at 85.1° N, 339.7° W, it measures roughly 380 km (236 mi) across,[1][note 1] greater than the length of [Lake Victoria](/source/Lake_Victoria) on [Earth](/source/Earth). Its surface area is ~61,000 km2 (23,522 sq. mi).[2] Its namesake is [Punga](/source/Punga_(mythology)), in [Māori](/source/M%C4%81ori_people) mythology ancestor of [sharks](/source/Shark), [rays](/source/Batoidea) and [lizards](/source/Lizard) and a son of [Tangaroa](/source/Tangaroa), the god of the sea.[1]

## Notes

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

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-USGS_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-USGS_2-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-USGS_2-2) ["Titan maria"](https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/SearchResults?target=TITAN&featureType=Mare%2C%20maria). *Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature*. [USGS Astrogeology Science Center](/source/USGS_Astrogeology_Science_Center). Retrieved 2012-03-16.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Hayes, Alexander G. (2016-06-29). ["The Lakes and Seas of Titan"](http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-earth-060115-012247). *Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences*. **44** (1): 57–83. [Bibcode](/source/Bibcode_(identifier)):[2016AREPS..44...57H](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016AREPS..44...57H). [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1146/annurev-earth-060115-012247](https://doi.org/10.1146%2Fannurev-earth-060115-012247). [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [0084-6597](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0084-6597).

## External links

- [Lakes portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Lakes)
- [Solar System portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Solar_System)

- [Labelled map of the liquid bodies in the north polar region of Titan](https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/images/titan_northpole_new.pdf)

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