Ark
Appearance
Ark may refer to:
Arts, media and entertainment
Fiction
Works of fiction
- Ark (2005 film), a 2005 animated science fiction film directed by Subro Adonis
- Ark (novel), a 2009 novel by Stephen Baxter
- Ark (web series), a 2010 science fiction series by Trey Stokes
- Ark (1970 film), a 1970 apocalyptic short film directed by Rolf Forsberg
- ARK (1996), a book of poetry by Ronald Johnson
- The Ark (Doctor Who), a 1966 Doctor Who serial
- The Ark (film), a BBC TV film
- "The Ark" (Stargate Atlantis), an episode of Stargate Atlantis
- Ark II, a children's science fiction television series
- Ark: Survival Evolved, a 2017 video game
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 game Sonic Adventure 2
- Ark, character in video game Terranigma
- The Ark, space stations housing humanity in The 100 (TV series)
Music
Bands
- Ark (Bangladeshi band), a Bangladeshi rock band
- Ark (British band), a melodic rock band
- Ark (Norwegian band), a progressive metal band
- The Ark (Swedish band), a Swedish glam-rock band
Albums
- Ark (Brendan Perry album), 2010, by Brendan Perry
- Ark (In Hearts Wake album), 2017, by In Hearts Wake
- Ark (L'Arc-en-Ciel album), 1999, by Japanese rock band L'Arc-en-Ciel
- Ark (The Animals album), 1983, by The Original Animals
- Ark (We Are the Ocean album), 2015, by We Are the Ocean
- The Ark (album), 1991 album by Frank Zappa
- The Ark (EP), 1996, by Swedish band The Ark
- Here Comes the Indian, 2003 album by Animal Collective, reissued in 2020 as Ark
Songs
- "The Ark", 2008, by Dr. Dog from Fate
Poetry
- "Ark", 2019 poem by Simon Armitage to commemorate launch of RRS Sir David Attenborough
Businesses and organizations
- Ark (charity), UK
- Ark (toy company), a former company
- ARK Music Factory, a record label, Los Angeles, California, US
Places
Buildings
- The Ark (Duke University), a dance studio at Duke University and former home of The Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team
- Ark Encounter, a pseudoscientific creationist theme park located in Kentucky
- The Ark (folk venue), a concert venue in the U.S. city of Ann Arbor, Michigan
- The Ark (fortress), a fortress in Bukhara, Uzbekistan
- The Ark, London, an office block in Hammersmith, London, that looks like a ship
- The Ark (Prince Edward Island), a bioshelter in Canada
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
Other places
- The Ark (Antarctica), a rock summit in Antarctica
Religion
Hebrew teva
- Ark of bulrushes, the boat of the infant Moses
- Noah's Ark, a massive vessel said to have been built to save the world's animals from a flood
Hebrew aron
- Ark of the Covenant, container for the tablets of the Ten Commandments
- Torah ark, a cabinet used to store a synagogue's Torah scrolls
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
Technology
- Ark (search engine), a people search engine
- Ark (software), an archiving tool
- Hongmeng OS, an Android-compatible mobile operating system by Huawei
- Ark Linux , a software distribution founded by Bernhard Rosenkränzer
- Archival Resource Key, a Uniform Resource Identifier that is a persistent identifier for information objects of any type
Other uses
- Ark Prize of the Free Word, a literary prize
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