Mount Tendürek / Tendürek Dagi (Agri province, Turkey)
N 39° 21.216 E 043° 51.981
38S E 402324 N 4356629
Mount Tendürek (Tendürek Dagi) is 3 584 m high shield volcano located NE of Lake Van and south of Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey...
Waymark Code: WMMAC2
Location: Türkiye
Date Posted: 08/21/2014
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Mount Tendürek (Tendürek Dagi) is 3 584 m high shield volcano located NE of Lake Van and south of Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey.
Tendürek is a shield volcano located in the Agri and Van provinces of eastern Turkey, close to the borders with Iran. The elongated volcano rises 1 800 m above the Dogubeyazit plain, south of Mount Ararat. The last known eruption was a gas and ash eruption in 1855. The original, Armenian, name of the mountain was Tondrak; the area around Tondrak is known as the birthplace of the medieval Armenian Tondrakite Movement of the 950s, which based its ideology on the Paulician teaching. [wiki]
The volcano, surrounded by vast lava fields, is not easily accessible - but nice view is from the road E99 (connecting towns Van and Dogubeyazit) at coordinates N39° 21.184' E44° 00.000' (altitude 2664 m, ca 11.5 km from the main crater) where presented pictures were taken...