Little Ararat or Lesser Ararat ( tr, Küçük Ağrı; hy, Փոքր Արարատ, translit=Pok'r Ararat; ku, Agiriyê Biçûk) also known as Mount Sis (), is the sixth-tallest peak in

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. It is a large satellite cone located on the eastern flank of the massive

Mount Ararat Mount Ararat or , ''Ararat''; or is a snow-capped and dormant compound volcano in the extreme east of Turkey. It consists of two major volcanic cones: Greater Ararat and Little Ararat. Greater Ararat is the highest peak in Turkey and t ...

, less than west of Turkey's border with

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. Despite being dwarfed by its higher and far more famous neighbor, Little Ararat is a significant

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in its own right, with an almost perfectly symmetrical, conical form and smooth constructional slopes. Little Ararat rises about above the Serdarbulak

lava plateau A volcanic plateau is a plateau produced by volcanic activity. There are two main types: lava plateaus and pyroclastic plateaus. Lava plateau Lava plateaus are formed by highly fluid basaltic lava during numerous successive eruptions throu ...

, which forms a saddle connecting it with the main peak.

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and

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climbed Little Ararat. Its peak and eastern flank were on the Iranian side of the border until the early 1930s. During the Kurdish Ararat rebellion, Kurdish rebels used the area "as a haven against the state in their uprising." Turkey crossed the border and militarily occupied the region, which Iran eventually agreed to cede to Ankara in a territorial exchange.

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* Mountains of Turkey Stratovolcanoes of Turkey Landforms of Ağrı Province Mountains of the Armenian Highlands Mount Ararat Three-thousanders of Turkey {{EAnatolia-geo-stub

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