The Ark’s resting place.

Many unjustifiably think that Noah’s ark came to rest on the actual Mount Ararat. Given Ararat's elevation, 16,946 feet (5,165 meters) above sea level, this seems to be highly unlikely! This misconception arises from an uninformed reading of the Biblical text. Genesis 8:4 reports that the ark came to rest on the “mountains” — plural — of Ararat, not on the Mount Ararat of our days. The distinction makes a huge interpretive difference. The entire Ararat range, actually a complex of ranges, extends from the vicinity north and east of Mount Ararat all the way down to the foothills skirting the Mesopotamian plain. It covers more than 100,000 square miles (250,000 square kilometers). Noah's ark could have come to rest anywhere within this enormous region.