Return to Suvla Introduction
  Home >Gallipoli >Suvla Introduction >Kiretch Tepe Sirt

Kiretch Tepe Sirt

To the north, the Karokol Dagh ridge that rises quickly from behind Suvla Point, to some 400 feet, frames Suvla Bay. The feature continues to rise to over 600 feet further inland where it is known as Kiretch Tepe Sirt. Cliffs fall steeply towards the Gulf of Saros but inland it slopes down steadily to the Suvla Plain. At the far end it drops slightly before the junction with the Tekke Tepe ridge which forms the eastern boundary of the plain.

 

A view eastwards along Kiretch Tepe Sirt.

Download Quicktime 4

 

Read Peter Hart's account of the fighting for Kiretch Tepe, Jephson's Post and Kidney Hill.

Get Adobe Acrobat Reader

 

 

Sangars on Kiretch Tepe, September 2000

Sangars on Kiretch Tepe, September 2000