THE AUSTRALIAN ARK – Federation to the Modern Era | 1900–1982
The moustachioed visage of Field Marshal Lord Kitchener was used to rally Australians to the cause of the Great War. Following the de-Germanisation of place names in 1916 the prominent Barossa landmark Kaiser Stuhl was temporarily renamed Mount Kitchener. But the rolling hills around it are still described as the Mount Kitchener Land System by South Australia’s Department of the Environment, Water and Natural Resources. [SLNSW]
Map of the Dardanelles published by HEC Robinson of Castlereagh Street Sydney ca 1916. Widely distributed in NSW and collected by desperate relatives of soldiers, this map shows the site of the initial Australian and New Zealand landings in Türkiye near Ari Burnu, British and French landings at the tip around Cape Helles, and the later British landings at Suvla Bay in August. [Anzac Memorial Collection]
Panorama. Above ‘No.1 Outpost’ there is a series of hills and some very rugged country. Follow the view around those hills to the right and toward the top of the sketch. Beyond the rugged country there appears to be a gentle valley in front of the three humps called the ‘W Hills’. As the gentle valley sweeps up to the right that is the ridge line running from Hill 60 to Hill 100. [Leslie Fraser Standish Hore, Sketches at Gallipoli , Türkiye Mitchell Library SLNSW PXE 702]
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