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There was only limited expansion of the
initial landing areas. Names such as Walker's Ridge, Russell's Top,
Pope's Hill, Quinn's Post, Courtney's Post, Steele's Post, Lone Pine and
The Nek achieved major significance in Australian military history,
synonymous with courage, tenacity and sacrifice yet the whole battle
ground fought over by thousands of troops fitted into an area less than
six kilometres north to south and two to two and one half kilometres
east to west, indeed inland from ANZAC Cove, the furthermost trenches
were less than one kilometre from the beach.
Except for one brief period in early May when the 2nd Australian Brigade
and the New Zealand Brigade were ordered temporarily to Cape Helles to
bolster the exhausted British and French troops there, the ANZACs fought
doggedly for eight months in an area no bigger than ten square
kilometres.
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