A short walk from Canada House in London is Waterloo Place. On the square’s eastern side is Kathleen Scott’s statue of her husband the doomed Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott. The statue of Sir John Franklin, Scott’s Arctic counterpart, stands on the west, the two tragic figures eternally staring at one another across the London traffic.
On the plinth below Franklin’s statue is a tableau depicting his Arctic burial. His crew stand respectfully around his coffin. Carved in bronze is the inscription “ TO THE GREAT ARCTIC EXPLORER AND HIS BRAVE COMPANIONS WHO SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES IN COMPLETING THE DISCOVERY OF …read more
Source: Ottawa Citizen
