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Win up to £500 worth of outdoor gear!

Competition opens for entries 10am Monday 1st December

Apollo 11 Landing: Map of the Moon

Back by popular demand, Ordnance Survey have re-released this map of the Moon which was originally released for the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

The Apollo 11 mission made made the 384,403km trip as part of the 'space race' with the USSR, and successfully touched down on 20 July 1969, at 20:17 UTC, making Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin the first humans to land on the moon. Around 3.5 hours later, stepping on to the lunar surface, Armstrong said:

"That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind."

Ordnance Survey have created this map of the moon using height data made available by NASA, captured by the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) and the Kagyuga Terrain Camera and shaded to show the heights. The map covers a large section of the near surface of the moon, centred on the Apollo 11 landing site at the edge of Mare Tranquillitatis (Sea of Tranquillity). Larger, named craters are shown, along with the landing site itself - the crater names have been taken from the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. The area covered is 1350km by 1000km.

How to enter the comepetition

Ordnance Survey's Map of the Moon was originally released in 2019 to commemorate the anniversary of the Apollo 11 Anniversary.

In true OS style, the cartographer of the map left their "mark". Hidden in the map is their name. Can you find it?

Let us know the cartographers name and the nearest crater, and you could win an amazing outdoor prize bundle worth up to £500!

A second prize bundle worth over £150 and runner up prizes available.

Be quick - prizes are awarded in order of entry.

No purchase necessary. For full competition rules and T&Cs, click here.

The Prize Bundles

First Prize
Outdoor gear bundle worth up to £500!


  • Osprey Tempest 9 Green (Women's) £120 OR Osprey Talon 11 Black (Men's) £110
  • Outdoor Research Seattle Rain Cap - Green £47
  • Black Diamond Sprinter 500 Lumens Headlamp £80
  • Mac in a Sac Khaki Poncho £39.99
  • Black Diamond Trail Cork Trekking Poles £110 OR Black Diamond Women's Trail Cork Trekking Poles £110
  • Ordnance Survey First Aid Kit for Families £29.99
  • Ordnance Survey Mirror Compass £29.99
  • Ordnance Survey Contour Flask £21.99
  • Ordnance Survey Contour Towel £26.99


Only one bundle available!

Second Prize
Outdoor gear bundle worth over £150!


  • OS First Aid Kit for Families £29.99
  • OS Mirror Compass £29.99
  • OS Contour Flask £21.99
  • OS Contour Towel £26.99
  • OS Walking Poles £49.99


Only one bundle available!

Runner up prize


  • OS Contour Towel £26.99


Only 5 available!

Competition Rules and Terms

T&Cs here