The history of the Galipoli campaign
The battlefields and cemeteries today
a ) Anzac Cove and the beach areas
b ) The Anzac front line and the heights
c ) The Helles area
d ) The Suvla area
Anzac units on Galipoli
Casualties
Travel advice and information

 


ANZAC COVE AND THE BEACH AREAS    

The road from Canakkale to Anzac Cove (via the ferries to either Eceabat or Kilitbahir), takes the visitor past the Kabatepe Museum and Information Centre (Kabatepe Tanitma Merkezi Muzesi). The museum displays a collection of war relics found on the battlefields and also military uniforms of each nation which fought in the Gallipoli campaign. The road divides shortly after the Kabatepe Museum. The right branch goes up to the Anzac front line battlefields and cemeteries; the main road goes straight on to Anzac Cove. There are ten Anzac cemeteries located alongside this shore road or within easy access of it.

 
Anzac Cove    
The landing beach was only 600 metres long and about 20 metres wide (erosion and spoil from the shore road have made it narrower today). This constricted site, soon named Anzac Cove, became the vital base and lifeline for supplies, ammunition and reinforcements and for the evacuation of the wounded during the 240 days of the campaign. The beach was shielded from direct Turkish observation by the two headlands, Hell Spit to the south and Ari Burnu to the north, and it was a hive of ceaseless activity, crowded with stores and equipment. Piers were built to assist the loading and unloading of boats.
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anzac cove
Anzac Cove showing stores and limbers and soldiers busy near the piers. AVM A03050
 
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