Mount Arkan is a mountain located in the Himalayas, an Asian mountain range.
During Sun Probe, when the Sun Probe rocket finds itself on a collision course with the Sun, Brains realizes that a powerful radio beam is needed to fire the Probe's retros. Jeff Tracy then decides to mount a two-pronged rescue. Thunderbird 2 is sent to Mount Arkan because beams from the powerful mobile transmitter will have a better chance of reaching the Sun Probe from high up the mountain, as compared to Thunderbird 3's comparatively weaker transmitter from space.
Trivia[]
- Mount Arkan is actually a real place. The location, however, is in Israel, not the Himalayas.