Battle of Gallipoli - Turkish map of ANZAC area

This map is one of 43 covering the Gallipoli peninsula, surveyed by The Turkish Mapping Directorate, under Brigadier General Mehmet Şevki Paşa, after the evacuation of Gallipoli in December 1915 and January 1916. British fortifications are shown in blue, Turkish fortifications in red. Place names were printed in Ottoman Turkish, with English translations added in later. The Turks naturally had different names for places at ANZAC than those used by the Australians and New Zealanders. Quinn’s Post was called Bomba Sirt, meaning “bomb spur”, because of all the bombs thrown there owing to the closeness of the trenches; Plugge’s Plateau was called Khain Sirt, which means “cruel or traitorous hill” (called Khan Sirt on the map, which is translated as “ruthless enemy hill”); Walker’s Ridge was called Sercha Tepe, meaning “sparrow hill” (or “sparrow head”); and Shrapnel Valley was called Kuruku Dere, meaning “valley of fear”. Some of the map’s interesting features include the several Christian cemeteries, the Indian Muslim cemetery, and three Turkish cemeteries. While some still remain in the same positions today, others were moved or remodelled in the 1920s. For example, the current Lone

Date

1916

Mapmaker / publisher

Turkish Mapping Directorate

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

map

Original size

4,159 × 4,724 pixels

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