The ark landed on the mountains of Ararat (Armenia), not on Mount Ararat.
The mountain now known as Mount Ararat did not have that name in Biblical
times. If Noah had landed on Mt. Ararat, he would not have been able to
see other mountains (Gen. 8:5) at a time when a bird could find no other
landing place in the ark's vicinity than the ark itself (Gen. 8:9). Also,
olive trees don't grow at 16,000 to 17,000 feet elevation (Gen. 8:11).
Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Moorad Alexanian wrote:
> People in the area of the Balkans settled in the area of the kingdom of
> Urartu and that was the birth of the Armenian nation. The term Armenia
> appeared first in Greek maps around 600 B.C. The Ark landed on Mount Ararat
> (Masis in Armenian), which is part of historic Armenia but is,
> unfortunately, in Turkish occupied territory. Mount Ararat is very visible
> from Yerevan, the capital of the Republic of Armenia, which came into
> existence in 1991 with the dissolution of the Soviet Union after centuries
> of subjugation. Moorad
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