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The IAU's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature approved three more names for Titan: Kraken Mare, Ligeia Mare, and Mayda Insula. Kraken Mare is the name of the largest north polar sea and Mayda Insula is the name of the island at the northern end of Kraken Mare. Ligeia Mare is the large sea to the east of Kraken Mare.

http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/HotTopics/ind...sula-Names.html

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Jason, any reason you know of why "mare" is placed at the end of a feature's proper name rather then at the beginning, as is the lunar convention?

I suspect this might be because of modern English colloquial usage vs. traditional Latin grammatical structure (we say "Pacific Ocean", not "Oceanus Pacificam"), plus the fact that the lunar 'seas' were misidentified, but it just seems odd that the terms are transposed on the only two non-terrestrial bodies in the Solar System with mares (definition notwithstanding).