Quidlivun Cavus

Quidlivun Cavus
Feature type cavus
Location Pluto
Coordinates 22°S 173°E / 22°S 173°E / -22; 173Coordinates: 22°S 173°E / 22°S 173°E / -22; 173
Discoverer New Horizons
Naming qudlivun

Quidlivun[1] is a small depression on the surface of Pluto corresponding to the central caldera of Wright Mons, southwest of the Norgay Montes and adjacent to Morgoth Macula. It was discovered by the New Horizons spacecraft in 2015 and named after the Inuit land of the dead on the Moon.

The name is a misspelling[2] of the Inuktitut qudlivun "(those) above us", where souls go after being purified in the Underworld, adlivun "(those) beneath us".[3]

References

  1. ↑ English pronunciation approximately /kwɪdˈlɪvən/
  2. ↑ For example, in a reference to Boaz in Anthropology Newsletter (1995: vol. 36, p. 46)
  3. ↑ Franz Boaz (1888) "The central Eskimo", in Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology. Smithsonian Institution, Washington.
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