{"id":127,"date":"2008-10-13T08:18:18","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T08:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/?p=127"},"modified":"2023-12-16T11:31:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T11:31:38","slug":"scott-of-the-antarctic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"Robert Falcon Scott"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

‘Above this tablet hangs the sledge flag<\/em><\/p>\n

carried in his first expedition by <\/em><\/p>\n

Captain Robert Falcon Scott R.N.\u00a0 C.V.Q.<\/em><\/p>\n

of Outlands, Devonport.<\/em><\/p>\n

Leader of the National Ant-Arctic Expeditions<\/em><\/p>\n

of 1900-4, 1910-13.<\/em><\/p>\n

Who with four companions perished from hunger<\/em><\/p>\n

and cold after reaching the South Pole in 1912<\/em><\/p>\n

and is here commemorated as being not the least<\/em><\/p>\n

illustrious of those men of Devon who brought fame<\/em><\/p>\n

to their country and rendered service to the world<\/em><\/p>\n

Their Name Liveth For Evermore<\/em><\/p>\n

_________
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

This flag was presented by his Mother<\/em>
\n

\n* * * * *<\/p>\n

The memorial is situated at the western end of Exeter Cathedral, in the south aisle.<\/p>\n

LINKS<\/strong><\/p>\n

– The Polar Museum: Scott Polar Research Institute<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

– The diaries of Robert Falcon Scott have provided an essential resource for subsequent writers and played a major role in shaping images of polar exploration. They are available to view online at the British Library.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Memorial to Captain Robert Falcon Scott in Exeter Cathedral<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[122,123,4,18,43,153,155,154,42,152,156],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-devon-2","tag-antarctic","tag-captain-scott","tag-devon","tag-exeter","tag-exeter-cathedral","tag-memorial","tag-outlands","tag-plymouth","tag-robert-falcon-scott","tag-sledge-flag","tag-south-pole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1991,"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/1991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.literaryplaces.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}