Mount Ararat
Mount Ararat ("Agri"), the tallest (16,940 feet, 5,166 m) 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. A widespread traditional misconception has it that 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.
Vessel-shaped features interpreted in aerial photographs of Ararat caused a stir in the late 1950s (see pseudoarchaeology), though expeditions found the features to be landslides and lava flows.
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