Crater on Mercury
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Africanus Horton is a circular impact crater on Mercury .[ 1] It was named by the IAU in 1976,[ 2] after Africanus Horton , a Creole African nationalist writer and an esteemed medical surgeon in the British Army from Freetown , Sierra Leone .[ 3]
The crater Andal is to the northeast of Africanus Horton, and Shevchenko is to the southwest. The crater Rameau and Discovery Rupes are to the southeast.
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