Çarpanak Island
Çarpanak Island or Ktuts or Ktouts, is a small island in Lake Van. It is now uninhabited, but formerly contained an Armenian monastery called Ktuts. The ruins of it can still be seen.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Islet
- Description: island in Lake Van, Turkey
- Also known as: “Charpanak”, “Icericarpanak Adasi”, and “Ktuts”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ktuts Monastery.
Ktuts Monastery
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ktuts monastery is an abandoned 15th century Armenian monastery on the small island of Ktuts in Lake Van, Vaspurakan. According to tradition, the monastery was founded in the 4th century by Saint Gregory the Illuminator, after his return from Rome.
Çarpanak Island
- Categories: lake island, uninhabited island, locality, and landform
- Location: Van Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
38.60789° or 38° 36′ 28″ northLongitude
43.08527° or 43° 5′ 7″ eastElevation
1,661 metres (5,449 feet)Open location code
8HC5J35P+54OpenStreetMap ID
way 847261352OpenStreetMap feature
place=islet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Çarpanak Island” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة تشارباناك”
- Arabic: “جزيرة جاربنك”
- Armenian: “Կտուց կղզի”
- Armenian: “Կտուց”
- Azerbaijani: “Çarpanak adası”
- Cebuano: “İçeriçarpanak Adası”
- Chinese: “恰帕納克島”
- Croatian: “Çarpanak”
- French: “Çarpanak”
- German: “Çarpanak Adası”
- German: “Çarpanak Insel”
- Kurdish: “Çixatan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Çarpanak Adası”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Çarpanakøya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ktouts”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ktuts”
- Persian: “جزیره چارپاناک”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Charpanaque”
- Russian: “Ичери-Чарпанак”
- Russian: “Ктуц”
- Russian: “Чапанак”
- Russian: “Чарпанак”
- Spanish: “Isla Çarpanak”
- Turkish: “Çarpanak Adası”
- Turkish: “Çarpanak”
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