Ark

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

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