Ark

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Ark may refer to:

Media and entertainment

Music

Bands

• Ark (Bangladeshi band), a Bangladeshi rock band
• Ark (Norwegian band), a progressive metal band
• Ark (British band), a melodic rock band
• The Ark (Swedish band), Swedish glam-rock band
• The Ark (South Korean band), a South Korean girl group

Albums

• Ark (Brendan Perry album),a 2010 album by Brendan Perry
• Ark (L'Arc-en-Ciel album), by the Japanese rock band L'Arc-en-Ciel
• Ark (The Animals album), a 1983 album by The Original Animals
• Ark (We Are the Ocean album), a 2015 album by We Are the Ocean
• The Ark (album), a bootleg album by Frank Zappa
• The Ark (EP), the debut EP of the Swedish band The Ark

Songs

• "The Ark", a song by Dr. Dog from Fate

Games

• Ark: Survival Evolved, a PC video game available on Steam early access

Places

• Ark, Bojnord, a village in North Khorasan Province, Iran
• Ark, Fariman, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
• Ark, Jajrom, a village in North Khorasan Province, Iran
• Ark, Jowayin, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
• Ark, Qazvin, a village in Qazvin Province, Iran
• Ark, South Khorasan, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran
• Ark, Virginia, in Gloucester County, Virginia
• Ark of Tabriz, an ancient citadel in Tabriz, Iran
• Ark, an alternative abbreviation for Arkansas
• The Ark (fortress), a fortress in Bukhara, Uzbekistan
• The Ark, London, an office block in Hammersmith, London, that looks like a ship
• The Ark (Antarctica), a rock summit in Antarctica

Religion

• Noah's Ark, a large boat said to have been built to save the world's animals from a flood
• Ark of bulrushes, the boat of the infant Moses
• Ark of the Covenant, container for the tablets of the Ten Commandments
• Ark (synagogue), a cabinet used to store a synagogue's Torah scroll

Technology

• Ark (river boat), a temporary boat used in river transport in eastern North America
• Ark (search engine), a people search engine
• Ark (software), an archiving tool
• Ark Linux, a software distribution founded by Bernhard Rosenkränzer
• Interstellar ark, a conceptual multi-lifetime space vehicle
• Archival Resource Key, a kind of URL

Fiction

Works of fiction

• Ark (2005 film), a 2005 computer-generated film directed by Kenny Hwang
• Ark, a 1970 post-apocalyptic short film directed by Rolf Forsberg
• Ark (novel), a 2009 novel by Stephen Baxter
• Ark II, a children's science fiction television series
• The Ark (Doctor Who), a 1966 Doctor Who serial
• "The Ark" (Stargate Atlantis), an episode of Stargate Atlantis
• The Ark (film), a BBC TV film
• ARK (1996), a book of poetry by Ronald Johnson
• Ark (web series), a 2010 science fiction series by Trey Stokes

Fictional story elements

• The Ark (Halo), construction and control station in video game Halo
• Ark (Noon Universe), a fictional planet in a series of novels by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
• Ark (Transformers), a spacecraft in the fictional Transformers Universe
• ARK, Advisors of Rubi-Ka in video game Anarchy Online
• Ark, teleport facility in video game Doom
• Ark, freighter in video game Eve Online
• ARK, space colony in video game Sonic Adventure 2
• Ark, the main character in video game Terranigma
• The Ark, the group of space stations housing most people in The 100

Ships

• 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 (English 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

Other uses

• Ark (charity), an international children's charity based in the United Kingdom
• Ark (toy company)
• ARK Music Factory, a record label based in Los Angeles, California
• Ark, a literary prize from the Arkprijs van het Vrije Woord
• Chicken ark, a mobile shelter for domestic chickens
• Joan of "Ark", occasional misspelling of Joan of Arc, a French martyr and saint who led a rebellion against an English occupation
• 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
• The Ark (folk venue), a concert venue in Ann Arbor, Michigan
• The Ark (Duke University), a dance studio at Duke University and former home of The Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team

See also

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