Kaçkar Dağı

The Kaçkar Dagi from the north

The Kaçkar Dagi is with 3932 meters the highest peak of Ostpontischen Mountains in northeastern Turkey. It is located about 40 km from the Black Sea coast and 70 km from the eastern border with Georgia and its port city of Batumi. The Turkish coast cities Rize and Trabzon are about 70 and 120 km west of the mountain.

The surrounding mountain ranges ( Turkish Dogu Karadeniz Dağları ) are about 400 km long and represent the eastern third of the Pontus Mountains dar. This extends about 1000 km along the Black Sea and, with its numerous parallel chains - which range up to 200 km inland - to alpidischen (simultaneously created with the Alps ) orogeny.

The nearest three thousand are

• The Kükürt Tepe ( 3348 m), about 35 km north- northeast (half way to Batumi )
• The Üçdoruk Tepe ( 3711 m), about 15 km west

To the south runs the valley of Çoruh, which flows into the Black Sea in Batumi.