Lake Nemrut on the southern slope of the caldera in 2007. The main thread in terms of ecology is overgrazing. Lake Nemrut Lake Nemrut () is a freshwater crater lake in Bitlis Province, eastern Turkey. It is part of Nemrut Caldera (), a volcanic caldera atop Volcano Nemrut. The caldera is a registered natural monument and the wetlandsis registered as a Ramsar site of the country. The caldera is located west of Lake Van in the Tatvan, Ahlat and Güroymak districts of Bitlis Province. It is named after the biblical figure King Nimrod. The caldera is far from Tatvan, and from Ahlat.
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