Nemrut (volcano) Nemrut (volcano) Nemrut (, "Sarakn", "Mountain spring", , ) is a dormant volcano in Eastern Turkey, close to Lake Van. The volcano is named after King Nimrod who is said to have ruled this area in about 2100 BC. The most powerful eruptions of Nemrut occurred in the Pleistocene. Many small eruptions occurred during the Holocene, the last one in 1692. The top of the volcano is a large caldera that hosts three crater lakes. Nemrut is a polygenic stratovolcano located in the collision zone of the Arabian and Eurasian tectonic plates, which determines the seismic and volcanic activity in
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