
What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: Captain R. F. Scott 1868-1912 Antarctic Explorer. Here on 13th June 1910 Captain Robert Falcon Scott CVO RN and the men of his British Antarctic Exhibition 1910-13 attended their last public banquet before departing on 15th June 1910 from Cardiff aboard the ‘Terra Nova’ beginning their journey to the South Pole. The Captain Scott Room is preserved in their memory. Recorded plaque organisation: Royal Hotel Cardiff.
Captain Robert Falcon Scott CVO RN led the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition to Antarctica, aiming to be the first to reach the South Pole; although beaten by Roald Amundsen's Norwegian team, Scott's journey and his diary documenting the expedition's tragic end have made him a symbol of British heroism and perseverance.
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