Nemrut (volcano) inside the caldera, becoming the world's second largest caldera lake. Subsequent eruptions separated a small lake Ilı from Lake Nemrut. Nemrut volcano has an elliptical shape, its size at the base is 27×18 km, and its center contains 377.5 km of volcanic materials. The caldera of Nemrut is the largest in Turkey, the fourth largest in Europe and sixteenth largest in the world. Locals link the name of the volcano with the legendary ruler Nimrod, who is credited with the construction of the Tower of Babel. Turkish chronicles of the 16th century reproduce a local legend as follows: Eruptions of
Mount Barney (Queensland) and it features prominently in a number of their stories. For Aboriginal people the peak has traditionally been regarded as a place to avoid. On 3 August 1828, explorer Allan Cunningham named the mountain "Mount Lindesay". However, the New South Wales Surveyor-General Thomas Mitchell is believed to have renamed it in the 1840s to "Mount Barney", after George Barney, a colonial engineer. Mitchell is believed to have assigned the name "Mount Lindesay" to the current Mount Lindesay (which Cunningham had originally named "Mount Hooker"). The first European to climb Mount Barney was Captain Patrick Logan, who reached the East Peak