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Mount Ararat forms a near-quadripoint between Turkey, Iran, Armenia, and the Nakhchivan exclave of Azerbaijan.Its summit is located some 16 km (10 mi) west of both the Iranian border and the border of the Nakhchivan exclave of Azerbaijan, and 32 km (20 mi) south of the Armenian border.
List of Mountains in Turkey; Name Altitude Mountain Range Coordinates Büyük Ağrı (Mount Ararat) 5,137 m (16,854 ft) Ağrı (Armenian Highlands: Gelyansın or Uludoruk (Reşko Tepesi) 4,134 m (13,563 ft) Armenian Highlands
Depiction of Noah's ark landing on the "mountains of Ararat", from the North French Hebrew Miscellany (13th century). In the Book of Genesis, the mountains of Ararat (Biblical Hebrew הָרֵי אֲרָרָט , Tiberian hārê ’Ǎrārāṭ, Septuagint: τὰ ὄρη τὰ Ἀραράτ) [1] is the term used to designate the region in which Noah's Ark comes to rest after the Great Flood. [2]
The highlands are divided into western and eastern regions, defined by the Ararat Valley where Mount Ararat is located. Western Armenia is nowadays referred to as eastern Anatolia , and Eastern Armenia as the Lesser Caucasus or Caucasus Minor, and historically as the Anti-Caucasus, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] meaning "opposite the Caucasus".
Little Ararat [a] (Armenian: Փոքր Արարատ, romanized: Pok'r Ararat; Turkish: Küçük Ağrı; Kurdish: Agiriyê Biçûk) is the sixth-tallest peak and a stratovolcano in Turkey. It is a large satellite cone located on the eastern flank of the massive Mount Ararat , less than 5 mi (8.0 km) west of Turkey’s border with Iran .
Topographic map of Turkey. ... Turkey's highest peak, Mount Ararat (Ağrı Dağı)—about 5,166 meters high—is situated near the point where the boundaries of the ...
An official road sign near Doğubayazıt in Turkey with the words Nuhun Gemisi ("Noah's Ship") pointing the way to the Durupınar site and away from Mount Ararat. According to local reports, heavy rains combined with three earthquakes exposed the formation from the surrounding mud on May 19, 1948.
With a height of 3,000 metres (9,800 ft) and an area of 88,015 hectares (217,490 acres), Mount Ararat National Park is Turkey's largest and highest national park. The last area to be declared a national park was Botan Valley National Park , which was listed on 15 August 2019.