Just spotted this pop up on SOTAWatch and thought I had misread the name
Childish I know….
Are there any more names that give a giggle?
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haha lots of knobs ….
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Translating some of the Gaelic summit names in GM can cause a chuckle, my favourite is the summit of Lochnagar, GM/ES-008, Cac Carn Beag, which literally means little s–t cairn, and just to the south is Cac Carn Mor which though it is lower means big s–t cairn. On a similar vein we have GM/NS-073 Beinn a Mhuinidh - mountain of p*****g, thought to refer to a prominent waterfall. Gaels, it seems, are not people who call a spade a horticultural impliment!
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Let us not forget Bod an Deamhain (Devil’s Point) which isn’t quite what the name means!
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is the polite emoji for one, Barry. The Gaels also liked a 
or two in their hill names.
Every day provides a new lesson 
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Pillow Knob is alarming… 
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Squaw Tit mountain in the USA.
Squaw Nipple Peak - California
Wee Wee Hill in - Indiana
Milk Shakes - Washington
Brassiere Hills - Alaska
Penis Mountain -Wyoming
listed in “From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow”, by Mark Monmonier”, along with many other topographical features around the world with controversial names.
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From the English Lake District I can offer Great Cockup and its diminutive neighbour Little Cockup. Neither are SOTA summits but they are definite peaks in the rolling hills back o’Skiddaw.
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Here in EI the saying goes if you have a Tubbercurry you get a Ringaskiddy.
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That is a popular summit name in the Appalachian Mountains.
Ex: “Let’s go climb Johnny’s Knob and activate it”.
Yes, we’re a bunch of 13yo boys trapped in the bodies of fully grown men.
Chris
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Better than the other way around!
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And there is a whole region of them in W7Y/TT - the Grand Tetons.
(Apparently those most likely to object to such names are also least likely to speak French.)
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The Paps of Jura ?
There are three of them which is a little odd
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Mr Scaramanga would approve.
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My favorite is W6/NS-102, aptly called The Nipple
Not as bad as all the “I 
Wank” signs on the way up and down
That is in Germany. 
EDIT: Mt Wank is also home to the Wankbahn (also dubbed by the operator as the Panoramic Mountain Wank).
Crude name (in some countries) aside, the Wankbahn actually has an interesting engineering history:
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From VK3 we have Mt Buggery.
Despite being not much more than 3 hrs from Melbourne it has never been activated, perhaps because it is in the middle of absolutely nowhere in the Alpine National park and the quickest access is a 20km loop graded ‘Difficult’ from Mt Howitt car park. It is, however, on the Australian Alpine Walking Track.
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