Mount Ararat
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| Mount Ararat | |
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 Satellite picture of Mount Ararat | |
| Elevation: | 5,165 metres (16,945 ft) |
| Coordinates: | Template:Coor dms |
| Location: | Turkey |
| Range: | Caucasus Mountains |
| Type: | Stratovolcano |
| Last activity: | July 1840 |
Template:Redirect Mount Ararat (Turkish Ağrı Dağı; Armenian Արարատ; Persian آرارات; Hebrew אררט, Standard Hebrew Ararat, Tiberian Hebrew ʾĂrārāṭ), the tallest peak in modern Turkey, is a snow-capped dormant volcanic cone, located in the far northeast of Turkey, 16 km west of Iran and 32 km south of Armenia. The Book of Genesis identifies this mountain as the resting place of Noah's Ark after the "great flood" described there.
A smaller (3896 m) cone, Little Mount Ararat, rises just southeast of the main peak. The lava plateau stretches out between the two pinnacles. Technically, Ararat is a stratovolcano, formed of lava flows and pyroclastic ejecta.
Symbolism
Yerewan_with_Ararat.jpg
See also
External links
- Mount Ararat live webcam (http://www.arminco.com/livewebcam.html)
- NASA Earth Observatory page (http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=4996)
- Space shuttle image and basic details. (http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/img_ararat.html)
- Global Volcanism Program, Mount Ararat page (http://www.volcano.si.edu/gvp/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0103-04-).
- Insight article about the Ararat Anomaly (http://www.insightmag.com/media/paper441/news/2000/11/20/CoverStory/Anomaly.Or.Noahs.Ark-208686.shtml)
- The Mountain of Noah (http://eifiles.cn/mn.htm) - Biblical references to Mount Araratbg:Арарат (връх)
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