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Map showing the location of the Dardanelles (yellow), relative to the Bosporus (red), the Sea of Marmara, the Aegean Sea, and the Black Sea. View of the Dardanelles taken from the Landsat 7 satellite in September 2006. The body of water on the left is the Aegean Sea, while the one on the upper right is the Sea of Marmara.
The long, narrow upper peninsula is Gallipoli (Turkish: Gelibolu), and constitutes the banks of the continent of Europe, while the lower peninsula is Troad (Turkish: Biga) and constitutes the banks of the continent of Asia. The Dardanelles is the tapered waterway running diagonally between the two peninsulas, from the northeast to the southwest.
It also contains a replica of the mine-layer Nusret [7] who used to relay mines removed from the Dardanelles by the Allied forces during the First World War. [8] A late 19th-century clocktower acts as a signpost for the older part of town where narrow streets are filled with bars, cafes and hotels.
It is located at Cape Helles on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey. The village lies east of the cape, on the shore of the Dardanelles. It was the site of V Beach, the landing zone for two Irish battalions, including one from the SS River Clyde, on 25 April 1915 during the Gallipoli Campaign in World War I. Its population is 277 (2021). [2]
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Morto Bay is an inlet on the South West tip of Cape Helles on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey. The bay is in the north west (European) coast of the Dardanelles strait, which connects the Sea of Marmara to Aegean Sea. The Gallipoli Peninsula is to the north of the bay. Administratively it is a part of Çanakkale Province. [1]
The Peninsula Hotels have been criticised by campaigners [20] for the continued use of eggs from battery-caged hens across their hotel locations. A large number of the hotel group’s competitors including Mandarin Oriental, Hyatt and Intercontinental have made commitments to use only cage-free eggs by 2025.
1901 map of the Dardanelles The toponym today refers to a neighborhood of the Turkish city of Çanakkale ("Fort Chanak"). Originally just a fort, the city occupies some distance north and south of the narrowest part of the Dardanelles on the Anatolian side, the point on which the fort stood being at 40°08′43″N 26°23′43″E / 40. ...