Command posts

Command posts

The Turks Head area where the hospital headquarters used to be. This is the central point throughout the peninsula, where the administrative services and various auxiliary services were established either in tents or in barracks.

3rd Australian Hospital

3rd Australian Hospital

The site of the 3rd Australian General Hospital. It used to be a large campaign hospital that was set up on the Portianou peninsula in August 1915 and remained there until January 1916 when it was moved to Alexandria, Egypt. It had many beds, dispensaries, and hospital laboratories, as well as tents for staff living while its capacity reached 1000 beds. Many doctors and nurses from Australia worked there and the site from where the ANZAC used to watch ships arriving and departing from Mudros Bay in their spare time, is behind the hospital site.

Navigation headquarters

Navigation headquarters

Watchtower pyramid, which was used to observe which ships are entering the Moudros bay and they were directing them with navy signals (Navigational Trig Marker). It is a building, about 10 meters high with local stone that was created for the signalmen, i.e. those who direct the ships on their entrance and exit of the Moudros bay. At its base, it has a watchtower for covering the safeguarder when the weather conditions were bad. It is wrongly identified with a cenotaph of the White Russians.