Gallipoli Peninsula
Reopened in 2019 as a museum focussing on Ottoman and maritime history, this sprawling castle was originally built by Mehmet the Conqueror in 1452 and…
Gallipoli Peninsula
Reopened in 2019 as a museum focussing on Ottoman and maritime history, this sprawling castle was originally built by Mehmet the Conqueror in 1452 and…
Gallipoli Campaign Historic Site
Gallipoli Peninsula
Set within the 33,500 hectares of the Gallipoli Peninsula, this historic site protects the cemeteries and battlefields of the Anzac campaign. There are…
Çanakkale Epic Promotion Centre
Gallipoli Peninsula
If visiting Gallipoli independently, it's a good idea to start your tour at this high-tech museum roughly 1km east of the village of Kabatepe. It…
Gallipoli Peninsula
Lone Pine is perhaps the most moving of all the Anzac cemeteries. Australian forces captured the Turkish positions here on the afternoon of 6 August 1915…
Gallipoli Peninsula
Little-visited W Beach, 1.5km west of Seddülbahir, was one of the main British landing beaches. It's famous for the 'six VCs before breakfast', referring…
French War Memorial & Cemetery
Gallipoli Peninsula
The rarely visited French cemetery is extremely moving, with rows of metal crosses and five white-concrete ossuaries each containing the bones of 3000…
Chunuk Bair New Zealand Cemetery & Memorial
Gallipoli Peninsula
Chunuk Bair (Conk Bayiri in Turkish) was the first objective of the Allied landing in April 1915, and is now the site of of this cemetery and memorial,…
Gallipoli Peninsula
On the morning of 7 August 1915, the 8th (Victorian) and 10th (Western Australian) Regiments of the third Light Horse Brigade vaulted out of their…
Gallipoli Peninsula
Mustafa Kemal, leader of the Ottoman 57th Regiment, spent the night of 9 August here, directing part of the counterattack to the Allied offensive…
Gallipoli Peninsula
Named after its height above sea level in feet, Baby 700 was the limit of the initial Allied attack, and the graves here are mostly dated 25 April. It's…
Gallipoli Peninsula
The Turkish Sargı Yeri Cemetery features an enormous statue of 'Mehmet', the archetypal Turkish soldier. Follow the signs from the main intersection in…
Gallipoli Peninsula
Cemetery and monument for the Ottoman 57th Regiment. This regiment was led by Mustafa Kemal (later Atatürk) and was responsible for halting the Anzac…
Gallipoli Peninsula
Near Kabatepe village, Brighton Beach was a favourite swimming spot for Anzac troops during the campaign. Today, this is the only officially sanctioned…
Gallipoli Peninsula
This is a monument to a more recent casualty of Gallipoli: Talat Göktepe, chief director of the Çanakkale Forestry District, who died fighting the…
Gallipoli Peninsula
Housed in the historic oceanfront Namazgah Bastion, this compact museum has interesting naval exhibitions and period photographs, and exhibitions on the…
Gallipoli Peninsula
Moving Turkish monument inscribed with Atatürk's famous words of peace and reconciliation spoken in 1934. After restoration in 2017, it was reinstated in…
Gallipoli Peninsula
In the village of Alçıtepe, the Salim Mutlu War Museum is a hodgepodge of rusty finds from the battlefields. It gives a good sense of just how much…
Gallipoli Peninsula
Yahya Çavuş Şehitliği remembers the Turkish officer who led the resistance to the Allied landing in the southern area of the peninsula and caused heavy…
Gallipoli Peninsula
This British memorial is a commanding stone obelisk erected in honour of the 20,000-plus Britons and Australians who perished in this area and have no…
Gallipoli Peninsula
The Düztepe Monument marks the spot where the Ottoman 10th Regiment held the line. Views of the Dardanelles and the surrounding countryside are superb…
Gallipoli Peninsula
Allied cemetery 200m from Lone Pine cemetery, accessed by a road that marks what was the thin strip of no-man's land between the Turkish and Allied…
Gallipoli Peninsula
Mehmetçiğe Derin Saygı Anıtı is dedicated to 'Mehmetçik' (Little Mehmet, the Turkish 'tommy' or 'digger'), who carried a Kiwi soldier to safety.
Gallipoli Peninsula
Cemetery a short drive north along the coastal road from Brighton Beach. More than 300 Australian, British and New Zealand soldiers are buried here.
Gallipoli Peninsula
North Beach commemorative site to Anzac troops where dawn services are held on Anzac Day (25 April) and site of the oft-photographed Anzac monument.
Gallipoli Peninsula
This gigantic stone structure, also known as the Abide (Monument), was built to commemorate Turkish soldiers who fought and died at Gallipoli.
Gallipoli Peninsula
Allied cemetery at the southern tip of the peninsula. 'V' Beach was a landing spot as part of the two-pronged initial Allied attack in 1915.
Gallipoli Peninsula
The Conkbayırı Atatürk Anıt is a huge statue of the Turkish hero, Mustafa Kemal (later Atatürk), leader of the Ottoman 57th Regiment.
Gallipoli Peninsula
The Sergeant Mehmet Monument is dedicated to the Turkish sergeant who fought with rocks and his fists after he ran out of ammunition.
Gallipoli Peninsula
Mesudiye Topu is an Ottoman cannon. The weapon was used to defend the Dardanelles from incursions by French warships in March 1915.
Gallipoli Peninsula
Skew Bridge Cemetery is north of Seddülbahir. Take the left fork north of the village where the road divides.
Gallipoli Peninsula
The Kesikdere Cemetery contains the remains of 1115 Turkish soldiers from the 57th and other regiments.
Gallipoli Peninsula
Allied cemetery in the southern part of the Gallipoli Peninsula, north of Seddülbahir.
Gallipoli Peninsula
Kanlısırt Kitabesi describes the battle of Lone Pine from the Turkish viewpoint.
Gallipoli Peninsula
Cemetery for soldiers from the Canterbury region in New Zealand's South Island.
Gallipoli Peninsula
Initial Anzac landing site on the ill-fated morning of 25 April 1915.
Gallipoli Peninsula
Allied cemetery near the southern tip of the Gallipoli Peninsula.
Gallipoli Peninsula
Allied cemetery in the southern area of the Gallipoli Peninsula.
Gallipoli Peninsula
Turkish monument on the Gallipoli Peninsula's southwestern edge.
Gallipoli Peninsula
Allied cemetery in the southern part of the Gallipoli Peninsula.
Gallipoli Peninsula
Australian and New Zealand cemetery to the north of Anzac Cove.
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