Ark

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Ark or ARK may refer to:

Biblical narratives and religion

Hebrew word teva

• Noah's Ark, a massive vessel said to have been built to save the world's animals from a flood
• Ark of bulrushes, the boat of the infant Moses

Hebrew aron

• Ark of the Covenant, chest for the tablets of the Ten Commandments
• Torah ark, a cabinet used to store a synagogue's Torah scrolls

Businesses and organizations

• Ark (charity), UK
• Ark (toy company), a former company
• Ark Invest, American asset management firm
• ARK Music Factory, a record label, Los Angeles, California, US
• The Ark, a weekly newspaper in Tiburon, California
• ARK Theatre Company in Los Angeles, California, US

Media, arts and entertainment

Fiction

Works of fiction

• The Ark (Doctor Who), a 1966 Doctor Who serial
• Ark, a 1970 apocalyptic short film directed by Rolf Forsberg
• Ark II, a 1976 children's science fiction television series
• ARK (1996), a book of poetry by Ronald Johnson
• Ark (film), a 2005 animated science fiction film directed by Subro Adonis
• "The Ark" (Stargate Atlantis), a 2007 episode of Stargate Atlantis
• Ark (novel), a 2009 novel by Stephen Baxter
• Ark (web series), a 2010 science fiction series by Trey Stokes
• The Ark (film), a 2015 BBC TV film
• Ark: Survival Evolved, a 2017 video game
• The Ark (TV series), a 2023 SyFy television series
• Ark: The Animated Series, a 2024 television series

Fictional story elements

• Ark (Gravitation), character in Gravitation
• Ark (Noon Universe), a planet
• Ark (Transformers), a spacecraft
• The Ark (Halo), control station
• ARK, space colony in video games Sonic Adventure 2 and Shadow the Hedgehog
• Ark, character in video game Terranigma
• The Ark, space stations housing humanity in The 100 (TV series)
• The Ark, a floating city and the main setting of the game Brink
• The Ark, fictional English pop rock band from Alice Oseman's third novel I Was Born For This
• The Ark of Truth, an Alteran device in Stargate: The Ark of Truth

Music

Bands

• Ark (British band), a 1985 melodic rock band
• Ark (Bangladeshi band), a 1991 Bangladeshi rock band
• The Ark (Swedish band), a 1991 Swedish glam-rock band
• Ark (Norwegian band), a 1999 progressive metal band
• The Ark, a 2015 South Korean girl group with members including Euna Kim and Lee Su-ji

Albums

• Ark (The Animals album), 1983, by The Original Animals
• The Ark (album), 1991 album by Frank Zappa
• The Ark (EP), 1996, by Swedish band The Ark
• Ark (L'Arc-en-Ciel album), 1999, by Japanese rock band L'Arc-en-Ciel
• Here Comes the Indian, 2003 album by Animal Collective, reissued in 2020 as Ark
• Ark (Brendan Perry album), 2010, by Brendan Perry
• Ark (We Are the Ocean album), 2015, by We Are the Ocean
• Ark (In Hearts Wake album), 2017, by In Hearts Wake

Songs

• "The Ark", 2008, by Dr. Dog from Fate

Poetry

• "Ark", 2019 poem by Simon Armitage to commemorate launch of RRS Sir David Attenborough

Places

Buildings

• The Ark (fortress), 5th century AD, Bukhara, Uzbekistan
• The Ark (Duke University), an 1898 dance studio
• The Ark (folk venue), since 1965, Ann Arbor, Michigan, US
• The Ark (Prince Edward Island), a 1975 bioshelter in Canada
• The Ark (Tadcaster), historic building in England
• The Ark, London, a 1989 office block in Hammersmith, London, UK
• Ark Encounter, a 2016 creationist theme park, Kentucky, US

Inhabited places

• Ark., an alternative abbreviation for Arkansas, United States
• Ark, Iran (disambiguation)
• Ark, Missouri, a ghost town in the United States
• Ark, Virginia, in Gloucester County, Virginia, United States
• Autonomous Region of Krajina, in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Other places

• The Ark (Antarctica), a rock summit in Antarctica

Transportation

• Ark (river boat), a temporary boat used in river transport in eastern North America
• HMS Ark Royal, a prestigious ship name in the British Royal Navy, often the name of the Fleet Flagship, has been given to five ships
• The Ark (ship), a ship used in founding the Province of Maryland
• The Ark, a ship used as a Scottish Marine Station, now the basis of the University Marine Biological Station Millport
• The Ark, an unfinished sculpture in the form of a functional ship created by artist Kea Tawana between 1982 and 1988 in Newark, New Jersey
• Interstellar ark, a conceptual multi-lifetime space vehicle
• Ararat International Airlines, by ICAO airline designator
• Arusha Airport, by IATA airport code
• Arkadelphia (Amtrak station), by Amtrak station code
• Armoured Ramp Carrier, a specialist armoured vehicle

Technology

• ARK (Archival Resource Key), a type of URL that serves as a persistent identifier for scientific and cultural objects
• Ark Linux, a software distribution founded by Bernhard Rosenkränzer
• Ark (search engine), a people search engine
• Ark (software), an archiving tool
• Hongmeng OS, an Android-compatible mobile operating system by Huawei
• Archaeological Recording Kit, a database and GIS web-based recording system for archaeology

Other uses

• Ark Prize of the Free Word, a literary prize
• ARK (Atomska Ratna Komanda), a nuclear command bunker near Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Netherlands Court of Audit (Algemene Rekenkamer)
• ARK (Access Research Knowledge), Northern Ireland Social and Political Archive

See also

• Chicken ark, a mobile shelter for domestic chickens
• Knowledge ark, a collection of knowledge preserved in such a way that future generations would have access to said knowledge if current means of access were lost

• Arc (disambiguation)
• ARC (disambiguation)
• Arch (disambiguation)
• Arkana (disambiguation)
• ARQ (disambiguation)
• ARRC (disambiguation)

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