The Scott memorial in Plymouth
Memorial obelisk with statue. 1913, by Albert H Hodge. Dressed stone and bronze. Square on plan. Monument with stepped and moulded base with bronze panel to each of the 4 sides; tapered obelisk with moulded entablature and stepped cap surmounted by a bronze winged figure. The bronze reliefs depict aspects of Scott’s journey to the South Pole in 1912.
Robert Falcon Scott CVO (6 June 1868 – 29 March 1912) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery expedition of 1901–1904 and the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition of 1910–1913. On the first expedition, he set a new southern record by marching to latitude 82°S and discovered the Antarctic Plateau, on which the South Pole is located. On the second venture, Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, less than five weeks after Amundsen’s South Pole expedition.