Mount Ararat

Mount Ararat (Turkish: Ağrı Dağı, Armenian: Արարատ, Kurdish: Çîyayê Agirî) is the tallest peak in Turkey. This snow-capped, dormant volcanic cone is located in the Iğdır Province, near the northeast corner of Turkey, 16 km (10 miles) west of the Iranian and 32 km (20 miles) south of the Armenian border.

Technically, Ararat is a stratovolcano, formed of lava flows and pyroclastic ejecta. A smaller 3,896 m (12,782 ft) cone, Little Ararat (Turkish: Küçük Ağrı Dağı, Armenian: Փոքր Արարատ), rises from the same base, southeast of the main peak sometimes called in Armenian: Մասիս and in Turkish: Büyük Ağrı Dağı. 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.

The asteroid 96205 Ararat is named in the mountain's honour.