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A fact from Mollie's Nipple appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 April 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that as many as 11 geological features in Utah are named Mollie's (or Molly's) Nipple?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2011/April.

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Who?[edit]

Do I really need to ask? Who is Mollie? What was special about her nipple? Did she visit all those places? If not, then why were they named as such? There's a load of coverage missing here. Boneyard90 (talk) 21:13, 15 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You are not the first to ask this question :-) Please take a look here: "Who was Mollie and why everyone seem to know what her nipples looked like" So, my guess was as good as a guess of the author of the book, and using available sources I wrote in the lead: "At least some of those names are attributed to John Kitchen – a pioneer of an early exploration of Utah, who named them to commemorate a nipple of his wife (or his bride according to some sources) Molly".--Mbz1 (talk) 21:31, 15 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Why the distinction between wife and bride? —Tamfang (talk) 03:00, 16 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Why shouldn't there be? Some sources say she was a wife, others say she was a bride. It is not the same, isn't it? In any case, if you feel as fixing it selecting either one of two, please do.--Mbz1 (talk) 03:10, 16 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've seen the phrases used interchangeably, but I guess a real pedant could claim that there is a distinction that could be made there. Such is the English language I guess... Qrsdogg (talk) 05:18, 16 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If she was ever his bride, then presumably she was his wife very soon afterward, as I understand the terms. —Tamfang (talk) 05:49, 16 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, I think describing her as his bride could imply that they were newlyweds at the time, as well. Qrsdogg (talk) 16:32, 16 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It is interesting. In my mother's tongue "bride" means a woman who is engaged, but an engagement not always ends up with a wedding. --Mbz1 (talk) 16:46, 16 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

11 Mollies Nipples[edit]

The wiki article says that some sources say that there are at least 11 Mollies Nipples (though one is in Northern Arizona). This is true. Only seven pop up in the USGS database and that's what wiki list, but there are more in the database under alternate names.

For example if you look up Marys Nipple in the query (ID1443219), Mollies Nipple is listed as an alternate name. The topo maps show both names.

There are two summits on Antelope Island that have been labeled as Mollies Nipple. On the large scale 7.5 minute maps, Mollies Nipple is a lower summit on Antelope Island, but on the State Topo map, the highest summit is Marys Nipple.

The Mollies Nipple in Northern Arizona is in the area of Parashant Canyon. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.167.133.38 (talk) 14:50, 10 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]