Terra Nova Commemoration Project

A group consisting Kiriemuir Landward East Community Council, Kirriemuir Heritage Trust, Dundee Heritage Trust and Cortachy Primary School are looking to mark the centenary of the deaths of Capt Robert Falcon Scott and his Polar Party. In 1919 a memorial fountain was erected at a spot known locally as ‘Scotts View’ , the plaque stated “Given into the care of the people of Cortachy for them to hold in remembrance. Robert Falcon Scott and Edward Adrian Wilson who new this glen : they reached the South Pole on 17th January 1912 and died together on the Great Ice Barrier March 1912. For the journey is done and the summit attained and the barriers fall.” This was destroyed in 1979 and a simple cairn has marked the spot since 1981. The communtiy now wish to re-establish in another form that which was given into their care back in 1919, they are looking to improve and landscap the site and erect a piece of granite which will be engraved to record the exploits of Scott and Wilson on the 1912 Antartic Expedition.