Ararat

an extinct volcanic mountain massif in E Turkey: two main peaks; Great Ararat 5155 m (16 916 ft.), said to be the resting place of Noah's Ark after the Flood (Genesis 8:4), and Little Ararat 3914 m (12 843 ft.)

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Ararat

traditional resting place of Noah’s ark after the Flood. [O.T.: Genesis 8:4]

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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Ararat

a city in Ararat Raion, Armenian SSR, located on the Ararat Plain, on the Yerevan-Dzhul’fa highway. Railroad station 51 km southeast of Yerevan. Population, 9,800 (1968). A cement and slate combine was put into operation in 1957 on the basis of the Davalin limestone and travertine mine. Ararat was founded as a settlement in 1929 in connection with the construction of a cement plant; it was reorganized as a city in 1962.

Ararat

a volcanic massif rising over the right bank of the middle reaches of the Araks River in Turkey, near the border with the USSR. Ararat consists of the cones of two extinct volcanoes whose bases have merged: the Bol’shoi Ararat (known in Armenian as Masis and in Turkish as Büyük-Agndag), with an elevation of 5,165 m; and the Malyi Ararat, with an elevation of 3,925 m. The Sardar-Bulak anticline runs between them. The combined perimeter of the bases of both peaks is about 130 km. Ararat is composed of Cenozoic basalts. The Bol’shoi Ararat is capped by permanent snow above an elevation of 4,250 m and has about 30 glaciers (including St. Jacob’s glacier, over 2 km long). The slopes, formed from weathered lava flows, are bare.

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Besides Mt Ararat, Anqoudi has scaled Mt Toubkal in Morocco, Mt Kilimanjaro in Africa, Mt Kala Patthar and Everest Base Camp Trek (5,364m) in Nepal, Mt Apo (2,954m) in Philippines, Mt Fuji (3,776m) in Japan, Postokove Rock (4,700m) and Mt Cheget (3,150m) in Russia, Mt Kinabalu (4,095m) in Malaysia, Mt Bromo (3,229m) and Mt Semeru (3,667m) in Indonesia.

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The participants in the "Climb for Palestine" group arrived on Friday in the town of Dojo Bayazid in northeastern Turkey in preparation to start their mountain climbing toward the top of Mount Ararat, about 5,136 meters above sea level.

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Not a pair to sit still, Dorothy and Vernon also helped found the Ararat luncheon club and would often be seen serving tea and coffee, peeling the vegetables and helping wash up afterwards.

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An incident that greatly stimulated adventurers to pursue the search for the Biblical Noah's ark was the strong earthquake that rocked and shook Mount Ararat on June 20, 1840.

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Derick also found his brother's van, which had been impounded by police in the city of Dogubayazit, a Kurdish town on the border with Iran at the foot of Mount Ararat.

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He had made many trips to 16,854ft Mount Ararat and combined his ark hunting with missionary work in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Israel.

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In spite of the relatively amateur level of the Lebanese climbers, Mouracade, who has already scaled Mount Blanc and Kilimanjaro, warned that an expedition to Ararat was not to be undertaken lightly.

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