ANZAC Cove

ANZAC Cove is a bay on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Çanakkale Province, Turkey, running along the Aegean Sea for about 600 meters (roughly 2,000 feet). Steep slopes rise directly behind the narrow shoreline, while gentle waves lap against the pebbly beach and Mediterranean scrub covers the ridges above.

Troops from Australia and New Zealand came ashore here in the early morning hours of April 25, 1915, during the Gallipoli Campaign. The fighting lasted for months and left a lasting mark on how both nations remember their past.

The name ANZAC, short for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, connects this shore to national memory in both southern Pacific nations. Visitors often walk quietly along the water, pausing at memorials that mark a shared chapter in their countries' stories.

Information panels along the path offer explanations in several languages, and marked trails lead to different memorials above the shore. Guided walks help make sense of the terrain and its role during the events of 1915.

The Turkish government gave the cove its official name in 1985, seventy years after the events took place. Before that, locals knew it by different Turkish names, but the new designation now honors the memory of both Pacific nations.