The road branching to the right shortly after the Kabatepe Museum, climbs to the heights and passes beside or within easy access of eleven Anzac cemeteries and most of the principal battle sites. They are listed below in order from south to north, as the roadway passes them.

Lone Pine Memorial, is the main Australian memorial on Gallipoli, commemorating the 3,268 Australians and 456 New Zealanders who died in the campaign and have no known grave and the 960 Australians and 252 New Zealanders who were buried at sea. Beneath the pylon of the memorial is a small chapel which is open to the public on Anzac Day during the official commemorative ceremony.

In April 1915 a single pine tree was growing on the site and the Australians called it 'Lonesome Pine' from the rifle of a popular song of the day, The trail of the lonesome pine. The tree was destroyed in the early fighting but its seeds were planted in Australia and used to grow the present tree in the cemetery.

In early-August Lone Pine was the site of some of the bloodiest fighting on the Peninsula during the famous bayonet attack on the Turkish trenches by the 1st Australian Infantry Brigade. On reaching the enemy's positions the Australians found the trenches covered by heavy logs; they broke into the trenches and, after fierce hand-to-hand fighting and resisting Turkish counter-attacks over several days, they captured them. Seven Victoria Crosses were awarded to Australians; but in four days of fighting in the trenches and tunnels there were over 2,000 Australian and almost 5,000 Turkish casualties.

Lone Pine Cemetery adjoins the memorial and is located over the original Turkish trenches and tunnels, some of which were filled in as mass graves. The cemetery contains the graves of soldiers who died over the entire campaign from the first day's fighting to the last deaths amongst the Lone Pine garrison in late-November. Over 500 of the graves are unidentified.

Shell Green Cemetery is located on the western slopes of Bolton's Ridge near Artillery Road (the main route by which guns were hauled up from the beach to their positions on 400 Plateau). The cemetery is most easily reached by walking for 1 kilometre down the 4-wheel drive track which begins on the seaward side of the Lone Pine Memorial & Cemetery and which follows the original Artillery Road. Shell Green was the only flat ground within the Anzac enclave, but it was under direct observation from the Turkish higher positions. On 17 December the Anzacs staged a cricket match on Shell Green as a diversion during preparations for the evacuation, but it was abandoned when Turkish shells landed nearby. Shell Green was the site of two cemeteries during the campaign which were joined in 1919 and enlarged with the addition of other graves from the battlefield. The present cemetery contains the graves of 429 soldiers, including 408 Australians, 11 of them in unnamed graves.

Johnston's Jolly Cemetery is on the Turkish side of the front line north of Lone Pine. It is opposite the area where Colonel George Johnston, commander of the 2nd Australian Divisional Affillery placed his field guns to 'jolly up the Turks'. The cemetery, which was made after 1919 by consolidating isolated graves in the area, contains 145 unidentified graves and only one identified soldier, an Australian of the 15th Battalion. Turkish covered trenches in this area were very deep and secure; a remnant of one of these trenches is near the cemetery.

4th Battalion Parade Ground Cemetery is located on the southern slope of Braunds Hill. It is reached by a steep, rough track (5 minutes walk), signposted just north of Johnston's Jolly. The cemetery is on the site of the original 4th Battalion burial ground of 1915 but further burials from other cemeteries and isolated graves were concentrated in this cemetery in 1919. It contains the graves of 116 soldiers, including 107 Australians, mostly 3rd and 4th Battalion men killed in the May fighting.
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