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Gallipoli was, Turkish machine-gun nests kept destination for visitors from ‘down
Across the Dardanelles from Canakkale the Allies pinned along the beaches, under’, especially on or around
lies the Gallipoli Peninsula. Its historic cutting them to shreds and ANZAC Day. Most of the battlefield
significance can’t be overestimated – effectively delaying any further Allied is now part of a national park, and
World War I would have been movement on the Eastern Front. The the scenery – pine trees, green hills,
considerably shorter (and the course of overwhelming majority of the Allied ochre cliffs and sandy beaches –
history changed) had the British forces on the beaches at Gallipoli would be well worth a look even
Empire’s troops succeeded in taking came from the Australia-New without the historical attractions that
the heights of the peninsula. As it Zealand Army Corps (the ANZAC's), are discreetly present.
and the place is a pilgrimage