The Boss’ Memorial Cross transported over 7,000 thousand miles from South Georgia to Dundee aboard the RRS Sir David Attenborough.
On Monday 20 May, it was announced that the cross from Shackleton’s Hope Point memorial will soon be on display at Discovery Point Museum; home of the Royal Research Ship (RRS) Discovery, the ship that first carried Shackleton to Antarctica in 1901.
Crafted from wood salvaged from a nearby whaling station and set upon a stone cairn, the Cross stood on Hope Point for close to a century, before the decision was made in 2018, by the owners GSGSSI, to remove the Cross and replace it with a replica, to protect its poignant legacy.
Ernest Shackleton, curtesy of Dundee Heritage Trust