Mt. Ararat has the virtue of being the tallest mountain in the region.
Also, it has a very interesting formation, frozen in the ice, way, way up above the snow line. It's not currently accessible because of the politics of the region. Also, the face on which it's located is sheer and hard to get too.
Seems to me that the tallest mountain in the region would likely be the first one to poke out of a worldwide flood.
Seems to me that, if there really was a Noah's Ark, and if it's still around anywhere to be found, it would have to be locked in the permanent ice somewhere at the top of some very tall mountain. Ararat would fit that bill.
I've always said that if teams were able to get to the icy site on Ararat and actually found parts of a huge ark there, frozen in ice, with exotic animal droppings frozen in it, it would prove the Biblical literalists' case hands down.
Hope this comes out right--- Later gang --- Spartan
Genesis says the "mountains of Ararat" not mount Ararat!