Home > Places > Commonwealth of Independent States and the Baltic Nations > CIS and Baltic Physical Geography

Research topic:Mount Aragats

Find more facts and information on our topic page about Mount Aragats

Mount Aragats

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Mount Aragats or Mount Alagez , extinct volcano, 13,435 ft (4,095 m) high, N Armenia, in the Lesser Caucasus. It is the highest peak in Armenia.


Find more facts and information related to the .
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright 2008 Columbia University Press

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

Mount Elbrus
; Mount Elbrus, in Russia, is the highest mountain in Europe. It is actually an extinct volcano with two craters. 2008 Al Bawaba (www.albawaba.com) Read more
SA: Stranded woman rescued from inside extinct volcano
; ...General News (Australia) 01-12-1999 SA: Stranded woman rescued from inside extinct volcano ADELAIDE, Jan 12 AAP - A young woman who got stuck inside an extinct volcano south of Mt Gambier, in South Australia's south-east, was rescued tonight... Read more
1962 FRIDAY 11 JANUARY
; Avalanche in Peru The village of Ranrahirca in north-west Peru was destroyed when millions of tons of rocks and ice tumbled down the extinct volcano Huascarn, Peru's highest mountain. Some 4,000 people died Read more
Preventing overcast weather.(cause of cloud wake)(Brief Article)
; `Cloud wake', is caused as passing low strata cloud is split by the 1,370-metre peak of an extinct volcano on the island of Guadalupe in the Pacific Ocean, about 290 km off the Mexican coast. Read more
Wild Wales: rambles and scrambles - garnfadryn mountain.(Features)
; ...seven from Pwllheli. What's the attraction? Pre-Romanhistory,extinct volcano, stone circles and panoramic views. How do you get there...Trig Point on the top of the mountain. Garnfadryn is an extinct volcano and the stone circles to the west are pre- Roman. This was... Read more
A walk in the Golan's woods
; ...Forest in the Golan Heights. Located in the crater of an extinct volcano, the forest not only constitutes a little world of its own...Mas'ada, it is but a short ride to the Bental Panorama atop an extinct volcano, to which a new road has recently been paved. Saliternik... Read more
A LETTER FROM HOLYROOD: Extinct volcano provides a humbling sense of perspective
; ...eventually dispersed, we can speculate whether the building's situation, in the shadow of Arthur's Seat, a 350-million year-old extinct volcano, might lend a certain humbling sense of perspective to parliamentary business. It was his forays along the basalt crags... Read more
Bills protect New Mexico lands: Senate legislation could create New Mexico's 'greater Yellowstone.' (bills offered by Sen. Jeff BIngaman would double the size of Bandelier National Monument and allow purchase of the 1,000 acres now owned by a cattle company)(Brief Article)
; ...Southwestern forest land, including the world's largest extinct volcano, could wind up in public hands under two new bills introduced...including the six-milewide Valle Grande, the largest caldera and extinct volcano in the world. The superb geologic, geothermal, cultural... Read more
Ben waves bye to title.(News)
; ...Geological Survey says a 5700ft undersea mountain has been found in the deepwater Rockall Trough off the Western Isles. The extinct volcano has been named Anton Dohrn. Scientists used echo-sounder records to establish its height, which is about 1300ft higher than... Read more
SEAT OF TOURISM.(News)
; ARTHUR'S Seat is the only Scottish venue in a new Top 20 of cool places to visit in Britain. The extinct volcano in Edinburgh took one per cent of votes - the same as Stonehenge - among 700 tourists. The London Eye ferris wheel by the River... Read more

Related entries from encyclopedias, dictionaries, and thesauruses

Mount Alagez
see Aragats, Mount , Armenia. Read more
Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory
...Observatory The observatory of the Armenian Academy of Sciences, founded in 1946 by V. A. Ambartsumian . It is located at Mount Aragats near Yerevan, Armenia, at an altitude of 1500 m. Its main instruments are a 2.6-m reflector opened in 1976... Read more
Armenia
...Armenia is a rugged mountainous republic, the highest peak is Mount Aragats, 4090m (13,420ft). Armenia has severe winters and cool summers...Originally it was a much larger independent kingdom, centred on Mount Ararat ; incorporating present-day ne Turkey and parts of... Read more
Armenia
...the southeast. There is little forest land and a few fast flowing rivers. The Aras River Valley contains good soil. Mount Aragats, an extinct volcano in the plateau region, is the highest point in Armenia at 13,425 ft (4,095 m). The nation occasionally... Read more
Armenia
...the mountains ringing Yerevan create a dramatic backdrop. Mount Ararat of Noah's Ark fame, a 16,000-foot peak crowned with...southwest horizon across the Turkish border. To the north looms Mount Aragats, Armenia's highest mountain, a rugged snow-capped peak of... Read more

Related research topics

Online videos

BBC News: Armenians Dance To Place In Record Books

For Students and teachers!

HighBeam Encyclopedia provides students and teachers facts, information, and biographies from verified, citable sources, including:

HighBeam Encyclopedia provides students and teachers facts, information, and biographies from verified, citable sources, including: