Cape Helles lies at the end of the Gallipoli peninsula, and at the end of Europe. Across the mouth of the Dardanelles lies Asia, the old fort of Kum Kale, and the ruins of ancient Troy. To the north-west is the island of Imroz (Imbros to the Greeks) and beyond that, towering up out of the Aegean, lies Samothrace, where the headless statue of the winged goddess of victory, Nike, was found in 1884. Northwards the vista is over fairly flat countryside to the village of Alçitepe. This is the landscape of the Helles battleground of 1915, and for nine months British and French soldiers gazed from their trench lines on the unattainable heights of the plateau, also called Alçitepe, beyond the village, which had been their objective on 25 April 1915, the first day of the Allied landing.
45-meter high monument was built in 1924 on the hill Gözcübaba. 33 meter high monument, grave who died in the Gallipoli campaign of uncertain lost to the sea burial was made for the soldiers.
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