A breast-shaped hill is a mountain in the shape of a human breast. Some such hills are named "Pap", a word for the breast or nipple. Such anthropomorphic geographic features are to be found in different places of the world and in some cultures they were revered as the attributes of the Mother Goddess, such as the Paps of Anu, named after Anu, an important female deity of pre-Christian Ireland.
The name Mamucium that gave origin to the name of the city of Manchester is thought to derive from the Celtic language meaning "breast-shaped hill", referring to the sandstone bluff on which the fort stood; this later evolved into the name Manchester.
Mostly breast-shaped hills are connected with local ancestral veneration of the breast as a symbol of fertility and well-being. It is not uncommon for very old archaeological sites to be located in or below such hills, as on Samson, Isles of Scilly, where there are large ancient burial grounds both on the North Hill and South Hill, or Burrén and Burrena, Aragon, Spain, where two Iron Age Urnfield culture archaeological sites lie beneath the hills.
Also the myths surrounding these mountains are ancient and enduring and some have been recorded in the oral literature or written texts; for example, in an unspecified location in Asia, there was a mountain known as "Breast Mountain" with a cave in which the Buddhist monk Bodhidharma (Da Mo) spent a long time in meditation.
Travelers and cartographers in colonial times often changed the ancestral names of such hills. The mountain known as Didhol or Dithol, Woman's Breast, by the Indigenous Australian people since time immemorial, was rechristened Pigeon House Mountain by Captain James Cook at the time of his exploration of Australia's eastern coast in 1770.
"Mamelon" (from French "nipple") is a French name for a breast-shaped hillock. Fort Mamelon was a famous hillock fortified by the Russians and captured by the French as part of the Siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War of the 1850s. The word "mamelon" is also used in volcanology to describe a particular rock formation of volcanic origin. The term was coined by the French explorer and naturalist Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent.
African Great LakesMount Elgon on the Uganda-Kenya borderSweet Sixteen, Matthews Range (Ldoinyo Lenkiyio), Laikipia district, Rift Valley Province, northern Kenya.Horn of AfricaNaasa Hablood in SomaliaIndian OceanTrois Mamelles mountains in the west of MauritiusMamelles Island, SeychellesSouthern AfricaOmatako Mountain south-west of Otjiwarongo in NamibiaThree Sisters in the Northern Cape, South AfricaWest AfricaDeux Mamelles, Pointe des Almadies, Cap-Vert, SenegalUna Peaks, long known as Una's Tits colloquially, at the entrance to the Lemaire Channel, Graham LandNipple Peak, Palmer Archipelago, Graham LandHemus Peak, Livingston Island, South Shetland IslandsCambodiaSroh-Plom Mountain, "Virtuous Woman's Breast Mountain", located close to Senmonorom, Senmonorom District, Mondulkiri Province, Cambodia.ChinaRushan (meaning "Breast Mountain") is a mountain in Weihai, Shandong Province, China.Middle EastTell Sader al-Arus (translation from Arabic: "Breast of the bride") is a mountain in the Golan HeightsPhilippinesBundok ng Susong Dalaga, "Maiden's Breast Mountain", Occidental Mindoro.Mt. Tagapo, Talim Island, two huge conical hills that are the highest peaks of Talim Island.Chocolate Hills, more than a thousand unusual geological formations in Bohol. A popular tourist destination named for their brown colour in the summer.Ilihan Hill, "Watery Breast", a pilgrimage site about four kilometres from Jagna, BoholKagmasuso, among other breast-shaped hills in San Andrés, CatanduanesThailandDoi Phu Nom (ดอยภูนม), Phayao Province, a breast-shaped hill rising in an area of grassland of the Phi Pan Nam Range.Khao Nom (เขานม), was one of the former names of Khanom, a district of Nakhon Si Thammarat Province, due to the surrounding mountains.Khao Nom Nang, a hill at Huai Krachao, Kanchanaburi. 14°18′00″N 99°43′00″EKhao Nom Nang, (เขานมนาง), a hill north of Pak Phraek, Kanchanaburi. 14°05′00″N 99°34′00″EKhao Nom Nang, a hill between Nong Pet and Chong Sadao, Kanchanaburi. 14°21′02″N 99°12′53″EKhao Nom Nang, an isolated hill in Khok Samae San, Lopburi. 15°19′00″N 100°51′00″EKhao Nom Nang, an isolated large hill in Khao Kala, Nakhon Sawan Province. 15°34′00″N 100°17′00″EKhao Nom Nang, the name of two hills west of Doeng Bang Nam Buat, Suphan Buri. 14°51′00″N 100°04′00″EKhao Nom Sao (เขานมสาว), "female breast mountain", a mountain located in Ranong Province, Thailand.Khao Nom Sao, a round hill east of Phet Kasem road in Prachuap Khiri Khan Province. 10°59′00″N 99°22′00″EKhao Nom Sao, a mountain in Chumphon Province. 09°46′00″N 98°43′01″EKhao Nom Sao, a hill in Phang Nga Province, part of a greater mountain system. 08°58′00″N 98°28′00″EKhao Nom Wang (เขานมวังก), a small hill just east of the main road at Phanom Wang, Khuan Khanun District, also known as Khao Phanom Wang, Phatthalung Province. 07°40′58″N 100°01′01″EKo Nom Sao (Thai: เกาะนมสาว, lit. female breast island) are twin islands located in the Phang Nga Bay, Phang Nga Province, Thailand.Ko Nom Sao in Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park, Prachuap Khiri Khan Province. 12°13′N 100°01′EKo Nom Sao, an island off the shore in Chanthaburi Province. 12°28′N 102°01′EUK and IrelandMumbles The two islands (on one of which stands a lighthouse) off the southeast corner of the Gower peninsula, Swansea, WalesBeinn Chìochan in the Grampians, ScotlandBennachie in Aberdeenshire, ScotlandMam Barisdale in Knoydart, ScotlandMynydd Llanwenarth near Abergavenny, WalesMount Keen in Aberdeenshire / Angus, ScotlandA' Chioch in Ben More, Isle of Mull, ScotlandMam Sodhail, on the northern side of Glen Affric, some 30 kilometres east of Kyle of LochalshMam Tor, near Castleton in the High Peak of Derbyshire, England.Samson, Isles of ScillyTwmbarlwm near Risca, WalesWittenham Clumps in OxfordshirePaps or Maiden Paps are rounded, breastlike hills located mostly in Scotland:Paps of Anu, near Killarney, IrelandPaps of Fife in ScotlandPaps of Jura, on the western side of island of Jura, in the Inner Hebrides, ScotlandPaps of Lothian in ScotlandMaiden Paps, twin hills in Caithness, ScotlandMaiden Paps, twin hills in the Kilpatrick Hills, ScotlandMaiden Paps, twin hills south of Hawick in the Scottish Borders, ScotlandMaiden Paps, another name for the Tunstall Hills near Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, EnglandMaiden's Pap, another name for Schiehallion, Perth and Kinross, ScotlandPap of Glencoe in the Scottish HighlandsDenmarkMarens Patter (Maren's Tits), a pair of twin hills that has functioned as a landmark for seafarers since the Bronze Ages.GermanyLilienstein in Saxon Switzerland, Germany
GreeceBreasts of Aphrodite in Mykonos, GreeceSpainTetica de Bacares or "La Tetica", a 2,086 m high mountain in the Sierra de Los Filabres, Spain.Tetas de Liérganes, CantabriaTetas de Viana, La Alcarria, Guadalajara ProvincePuig de Mamelles, Felanitx, MallorcaSes Mamelles, another name for the 714 m high Puig des Castellot, Escorca, MallorcaTuró de la Mamella, a mountain near Vacarisses, CataloniaBurrén and Burrena near Fréscano, AragonNorth and Central America
CanadaSquaw's Tit in the Canadian Rockies of AlbertaEl SalvadorSan Vicente, also known as Chichontepec, the mountain of the two breasts in Nahuat, a stratovolcano in El SalvadorGuadeloupeDeux Mamelles, GuadeloupeMexicoTres Tetas Mountain or El Chichión in Costa Grande of Guerrero, MexicoPuerto RicoCerro Las Tetas in Salinas, Puerto Rico, Puerto RicoTetas de Cerro Gordo in San Germán, Puerto RicoUnited StatesBubble Mountains, in Acadia National Park of Maine.Nippletop, in the Adirondack High Peaks of New York. During the later 19th century, it was euphemistically renamed "Dial Mountain", a name now officially applied to another nearby peak.Pilot Mountain, Pilot Mountain, North Carolina. Referenced many times on the Andy Griffith Show as Mt. Pilot. Andy spoke about a wonderful place to travel called "Pilot" by the locals.Pinnacle Mountain, Arkansas, near Maumelle. During the colonial and early American periods, the mountain was known as "Mamelle" mountain. "Mamelle" is a name commonly applied in the French-speaking parts of the world to a breast.Rock Mary, Caddo County, OklahomaSpanish Peaks, Colorado, named Huajatolla by the Ute Indians, meaning "two breasts".Tetilla Peak, Caja del Rio, New Mexico. "Tetilla" is Spanish for "nipple".Teton Range. French-Canadian trappers named the Grand Teton Mountains around 1820. The distinctive peaks appeared as Les Trois Tetons (The Three Breasts) seen from the northGrand TetonMiddle TetonSouth TetonTwin Peaks, in San Francisco, California. When the Spanish conquistadors and settlers arrived at the beginning of the 18th century, they called the area "Los Pechos de la Chola" or "Breasts of the Indian Maiden" and devoted the area to ranching. When San Francisco passed under American control during the 19th Century, it was renamed "Twin Peaks".Maggie's Peaks, just west of Lake Tahoe, California.Uncanoonuc Mountains, Goffstown, New Hampshire. From a Native American word for a woman's breasts.Mollie's Nipple or Molly's Nipple is the name given to as many as seven peaks and some other geological features in Utah.Squawteat Peak located in Pecos County, Texas west of Bakersfield.AustraliaPigeon House Mountain, NSW, AustraliaNew ZealandSaddle Hill, Dunedin, New ZealandArgentinaCerro Tres Tetas, ArgentinaBoliviaCerro Tres Tetas in Potosí, BoliviaChileCerro de Las Tetas, ChileColombiaCerro La Teta, La Guajira, ColombiaCerro de Las Tetas, Serranía del Perijá, La Guajira, ColombiaCubaTetas de Santa Teresa, Baracoa, CubaFrench GuianaLes Mamelles Islets, French GuianaPeruCerro Tetas, Chiclayo Province, PeruUruguayCerro Batoví, in Tacuarembó. Batoví means breast of a virgin in the Guaraní language.Cerro Pan de Azúcar (Sugarloaf Hill), in the Maldonado DepartmentVenezuelaTetas de María Guevara, Isla Margarita, VenezuelaTeta de Niquitao, Trujillo State, VenezuelaCerro de Las Tetas, Tinaquillo, Cojedes, VenezuelaCerro las Tres Tetas, Barquisimeto, VenezuelaSheba's Breasts are a pair of mountains in Africa in the novel King Solomon's MinesThe Teats and the Paps are pairs of hills in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire
