Anzac Cove (Anzac Koyu)

Gallipoli Peninsula


Initial Anzac landing site on the ill-fated morning of 25 April 1915.


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1. Beach (Hell Spit) Cemetery

0.13 MILES

Cemetery a short drive north along the coastal road from Brighton Beach. More than 300 Australian, British and New Zealand soldiers are buried here.

3. Lone Pine Cemetery

0.56 MILES

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…

5. Johnston's Jolly

0.6 MILES

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…

6. Arıburnu Sahil Anıtı

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Moving Turkish monument inscribed with Atatürk's famous words of peace and reconciliation spoken in 1934. After restoration in 2017, it was reinstated in…

8. Kanlısırt Kitabesi

0.76 MILES

Kanlısırt Kitabesi describes the battle of Lone Pine from the Turkish viewpoint.

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