The "Landing at SuvlaBay" was an amphibious landing made at Suvla on the Aegean coast of Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey as part of the August Offensive, the final British attempt to break the deadlock of the Battle of Gallipoli.
The original plan at Suvla was to put the 11th Division ashore south of Nibrunesi Point, the southern headland of the bay, as it was not considered safe to land in the dark within the bay itself where there were uncharted shoals.
The objective of IX Corps was to seize the ring of hills that surrounded the Suvla plain; Kiretch Tepe to the north along the Gulf of Saros, Tekke Tepe to the east and the Anafarta Spur to the south-east.
SuvlaBay was large and ideal for the landing of a sizeable number of additional troops.
Directly in front of the bay was the shallow Salt Lake, dry in August (but ill-suited for an infantry advance), and beyond that the flat Suvla plain that would serve for subsequent troop deployment.
Hamilton's next objective was to be the linking up of Allied forces at SuvlaBay with those sited at Anzac Cove, a distance of some 5km, and resulted in the Battles of Scimitar Hill and Hill 60.
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