Tallest mountain on Venus

The tallest mountain on Venus is located in an as-yet-unnamed cluster of peaks in the Maxwell Montes region of the Ishtar Terra plateau. The highest of these rises 10,690 m (35,072 ft) above the mean planetary radius. It was identified following a 2025 review of existing mapping data by researcher Jim Singh (AUS), who has given this group of peaks the provisional name of the “Western Pinnacles”.

The precise identification of the tallest peak is hampered by the fact that the Western Pinnacles are bisected by a strip of missing data in the map information collected by NASA's Magellanprobe. The previous holder of this record, a peak known as Skadi Mons, has been removed from the USGS Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature as closer analysis of the Magellan mapping data suggests it was a processing artifact and not an actual geographic feature.