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Flag displayed at the departure dinner held for Captain Scott and his officers in the Royal Hotel in Cardiff on 13 June 1910, two days before the expedition sailed for Antarctica. It was flown on the mainmast of the TERRA NOVA when the ship returned to Cardiff at the end of the expedition on 14 June 1913.
Collection Area
Social & Cultural History
Item Number
13.198
Historical Associations
Associated Person/Body: Scott, Captain Robert Falcon
Association Type: Use
Date: 1910 - 1913
Place: Antarctica
Associated Person/Body: Scott, Captain Robert Falcon
Association Type: Use
Date: 1910
Place: Cardiff
Creation/Production
Acquisition
Donation, 1913
Measurements
Width
(mm): 3450 (including toggle but minus length of rope [see below])
Height
(mm): 1830 (including toggle)
Length
(cm): 85 (of rope hanging from lower left corner)
Material
Tabby weave (wool)
Wood
Cotton (spun and twisted)
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