The cross stood at Hope Point on the island of South Georgia for nearly 100 years, before a decision was made in 2018 to replace it with a replica.
A memorial to polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton will travel more than 7,000 miles to Scotland to commemorate the 150th anniversary of his birth. The wooden cross from Shackleton's Hope Point memorial on the island of South Georgia will soon be on display at Discovery Point, a museum in Dundee where the Royal Research Ship Discovery, which first carried the explorer to Antarctica in 1901, is kept. Shackleton was born in Kilkea, Ireland, in 1874.
The voyage is a collaboration between the Dundee Heritage Trust , the South Georgia Heritage Trust , British Antarctic Survey , and the Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands . The DHT is appealing to fundraise £10,000 for the care of the cross at Discovery Point.
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