Van de Graaff is an unusual
lunar formation that has the appearance of two merged
craters, approximately in a shape with no intervening rim separating the two halves. The crater is located on the
far side of the
Moon, on the northeast edge of
Mare Ingenii. The crater
Birkeland is attached to the southeast rim, nestling against the slightly narrower "waist" of the formation. To the north is
Aitken, and
Nassau lies to the east.