Around Ari Burnu Point, the northernmost point of Anzac Cove, are the locations where the legendary landings on 25 April 1915 occurred. On disembarking, the troops were faced with precipitous cliffs rising from a narrow strip of beach. Turkish forces were strategically placed to repel the landing.

Official war historian Charles Bean later wrote “that strongly marked and definite entity, the Anzac tradition, had, from the first morning, been partly created here”.

Anzac Cove soon became the chief stores area for the Corps, the headquarters site, the location of medical facilities, and the place from which men arrived or left the peninsula