From Southern Africa Info
"Mons Mensa"… as every field or nature guide knows, is the Latin name of a star constellation meaning "Table Mountain" situated near the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighboring galaxy.
The constellation was named by a French scientific observer of the stars, Abbe Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, in the early 1750’s from his observatory in Strand Street, Cape Town. He is credited with having named 15 of the 88 constellations and Mons Mensa is the only one which represents a geological formation.
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