| Definition | the study or mapping of the planet Mars |
| OED requirements | antedating 1868 |
| Earliest cite | R.A. Proctor, Lands and Seas of Another World |
| Comment | Bill Mullins submitted an 1868 cite from an article "Lands and Seas of Another World" by R.A. Proctor in the magazine "Littell's Living Age", October 3, 1868, apparently reprinted from an earlier publication in Frazer's Magazine.
Earliest cite in the OED database: 1870 |
| Last modified | 23 February, 2005 |
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| 1949 R. A. Heinlein Red Planet (1968) 6 | Areography , equivalent to ‘geography’ for Earth. From ‘Ares’, Greek for Mars. |
| 1949 R. A. Heinlein Red Planet (1968) 6 | Well, I don't know. I'm interested in areography, but I like biology too. |