About this map
Each stop on this map is one search for Noah’s ark, or one old report of its remains, set at the place where it happened. You can step through them with Previous and Next under the map, with the line of years above it, with the arrow keys, or with Play. Under the map we tell you what was claimed, who claimed it and what came of it, and below that you will find the full wording and every source.
What the four labels mean
- From Scripture
- We quote Genesis 8:4 in the King James Version.
- From the record
- This is what a source says, quoted word for word, and every card names its sources.
- Drawn
- We drew the map ourselves. Where a source gives only a side of the mountain, a height or a region, we draw a dashed ring to show roughly where it means, because it names no single spot. A dotted line joins the places a story names, and it does not trace anyone’s route. A gold dashed mark stands for a report that is still to come.
- Our reading
- This marks a sentence of our own interpretation, one that someone could dispute, and we keep it apart from the record.
How Christians read the flood
Christians read the flood itself in more than one way, and the search for the ark means something different under each reading. Answers in Genesis holds that the flood was global, and Ken Ham wrote in 2025 that “we do not need to find Noah’s ark to be convinced that the global flood really occurred.” Reasons to Believe holds that the flood “wiped out all humanity and associated animals, save those on Noah’s ark, without covering the globe.” BioLogos reads it as “an actual historical event retold in the rhetoric and theology of ancient Israel.” You will find the Catholic bishops’ note on Genesis 8:4 at the first stop.
Some of the firmest answers to the claims on this map have come from Christians. Answers in Genesis, which holds that the flood was global, said on 6 October 2026 that “we don’t believe Noah’s Ark has been found at the Durupinar site,” and the Institute for Creation Research wrote in 2020, “We don’t yet have Noah’s Ark, and it looks unlikely to turn up.” Neither ministry rests its faith on what a search might find. On this map we report what each searcher claimed and what came of it, and we leave the open questions open.
Every stop
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Sources and licences
We quote news reports, ministries and scholars briefly and credit each one. Reports in Turkish we give in our own words rather than quoting them.
Map and type
- Coastlines, lakes, rivers and borders: Natural Earth 1:10m vectors, public domain.
- Relief of the region and of the wider Ararat area: GMTED2010 mean elevation at 7.5 arc-seconds, from the U.S. Geological Survey and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. The USGS lists its access constraints as “No restrictions, All GMTED2010 data products are publicly available.” Credit: U.S. Geological Survey.
- Relief around Mount Ararat and Durupınar: produced using Copernicus data and information funded by the European Union – EU-DEM layers, served as AWS Terrain Tiles (terrarium, zoom 12), whose makers give that attribution statement. We re-projected the heights, shaded them lit from the north-west and drew them 2.4 times as high. The European Union does not endorse this map.
- Place coordinates: Wikidata, CC0.
- Type: Tiempos Headline, FK Roman Text and GT America Condensed, as on christianpure.com.
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