Mount Ararat or Masis | volcano, summit

Turkey / Agri / Dogubeyazit /
 volcano, summit
Mount Ararat (Turkish: Ağrı Dağı, Armenian: Մասիս or Արարատ, Kurdish: Çîyaye Agirî, Persian: آرارات) is the tallest peak (5,137 m or 16,854 ft) of Turkey. This snow-capped, dormant volcanic cone is located near the east border of Turkey, 16 km west of the Iranian and 32 km south of the Armenian border.
Technically, Ararat is a stratovolcano, formed of lava flows and pyroclastic ejecta. A smaller (3,896 m) cone, "Little Ararat", rises from the same base, southeast of the main peak. The lava plateau stretches out between the two pinnacles. The last activity on the mountain was a major earthquake in July 1840 centered around the Ahora Gorge, a northeast trending chasm that drops 1,825 metres (6,000 ft) from the top of the mountain.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Ararat
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Coordinates:   39°42'22"N   44°17'52"E

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  • Isn't it the mountain where Prophet Noah's boat docked (after the great deluge) and this boat is sait to still lie somewhere on the mountain. Isn't this mountain also called Mount Judy?
  • Yes, The Boat of Noah is supposed to be here either on Mt. Ararat or in the Mountains of Ararat. Also, Turkish for the Boat of Noah I think is "Nuhum Gemisi".
  • If I wanted to I could go on forever depicting every little Anticline or Syncline as being Noah's Ark? Is my point finally getting across?
  • The altitude of the highest peak of mount Ararat is 5165 meters.
  • Noah's Ark just founded this week (27th April 2010) by Turkish and China arkeaologist 4200 metres from sea level at ararat mountain. The scientific carbon test show that the age of wood piece around 4800 years ago. This is the same time which the great deluge/flood had happened. Allahuakbar!!!!
  • Why this strange star-shaped outlines for mountain borders? Its distracting and (in my opinion) non-serious. Please correct it.
  • In 1968 when I was in the US Army in Turkey I got permission from the military authorities and climbed the Peak with two Germans (Alemanii) and a Turkish guide, Ahmet Turan. What most Ark "true believers" think is the ark is actually the remains of an Armenian religious building. L:et us not get into why the Armenians left. The north side of the peak got blown out in an eruption in the previous century. As Ararat stands far above surrounding ranges it is a natural focus for myths, legends, and fairy tales. The "Flood" waters conceptually might have come from icy comets and meteors but the heat of reentry would have boiled it all killing all life forms. And where did the water go? Spare me the hollow Earth theories.
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG5blrGjZbc&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fck09Yqi_Cw
  • Would the people who keep turning the outline of Ararat into a many pointed star please stop.
  • WOW!
  • EPic of Gilgamesh
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