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Newcastle's clifftop Memorial Walk marks 100 years since which event?

Answer: The Anzac Gallipoli landing

It marks 100 years since the Anzac landing at Gallipoli and the start of steelmaking in Newcastle.

450m walkway · part of the 6km Bathers Way

Steel soldier silhouettes line the 160m clifftop bridge, which carries close to 4,000 family names of nearly 11,000 Hunter Valley men and women who enlisted in World War I.

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