The Antarctic Monument Trust reaches goals
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Having achieved its goals the British Antarctic Monument Trust is planning to wind up its affairs by making a donation of £12,000 to the Scott Polar Research Institute in recognition of the support it has given to the Trust over a number of years. A similar donation is to made to the Falkland Islands Museum. A donation will also be made to St Paul’s Cathedral to support visits from school children. Our Antarctic Memorial close to the education suite in the crypt with its relief of Emperor penguins is much admired.
The Trust has commissioned maquettes of the southern and northern Antarctic monument to be cast by Pangolin Editions. When completed they will be presented to the Scott Polar Research Institute, SPRI, where the northern part of the monument is sited and to the Falkland Islands Museum and National Trust, FIMNT, where the southern part is sited. Each of the maquettes is exquisitely modelled and the maps and list of those ‘who did not return’ can be read easily on the plinth. They will help visitors to understand the symbolism of a single sculpture in two parts.
As part of its plans the Trust will be archiving its website so that it will continue to be available to search engines. The UK Web Archive, UKWA, collects on behalf of six UK Legal deposit libraries including the British Library and Cambridge University Library.
The archive collects millions of websites each year, curating them by topic and preserving them for future generations. A search for ‘Antarctic’ reveals 2,841,094 entries.