Anzac Cove

The Australian and New Zealand army corps landed at a small bay which is called Anzac Cove north of Kabatepe on the Gallipoli Peninsula on April 25 April 1915. Their objective was to seize part of Sari Bair range to cover their advance across the peninsula, cut the Turkish supplies there and threaten Turkish fighting forces further south at Cape Hells.

The Anzacs were never meant to land at the cove with its steep interland of rough gullies. They should have landed on a much longer beach and a wider front, but it seems that a navigational blunder put the troops ashore at the wrong place.

The Australian troops went ashore first and the new Zealanders followed them from late morning pushing inward to reach Australian troops on the second ridge (and in some cases the third ridge) about 12km from the bay. They struggled in rough terrain and found they were under increasing pressure from Turkish forces.