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how remarkable are the palm tree carvings on this memorial? Beautifully done and still remaining sharp against the long decades of erosion.

memorial for Arthur Perigal, RSA, landscape painter

memorial to Lieutenant John Irving, Royal Navy, of HMS Terror. The obelisk has a detailed memorial of events leading to his death - he was part of Sir John Franklin's famous expedition to find the fabled North West Passage in 1848 and 49.

The ships became trapped by the ice and after many had perished the survivors abandoned their vessels and tried to reach settlements in Canada by foot, but the intense cold and lack of food claimed the, Irving's grave there was found by a later American expedition, who honoured these earlier explorers by returning his remains to his native land.

This was an era where the all-powerful Royal Navy didn't just rule the waves protecting the global British Empire, it also sent vessels all over the world in a great age of exploration and scientific endeavour - expeditions like this or Darwin's voyages on the Beagle are just some of the more famous examples of those great voyages which added so much to the knowledge of our world. Some paid the ultimate price for their heroic voyaging into the unknown; I'm glad that this remembers some of those explorers

memorial to Lieutenant John Irving, Royal Navy, of HMS Terror. The obelisk has a detailed memorial of events leading to his death - he was part of Sir John Franklin's famous expedition to find the fabled North West Passage in 1848 and 49.

The ships became trapped by the ice and after many had perished the survivors abandoned their vessels and tried to reach settlements in Canada by foot, but the intense cold and lack of food claimed the, Irving's grave there was found by a later American expedition, who honoured these earlier explorers by returning his remains to his native land.

This was an era where the all-powerful Royal Navy didn't just rule the waves protecting the global British Empire, it also sent vessels all over the world in a great age of exploration and scientific endeavour - expeditions like this or Darwin's voyages on the Beagle are just some of the more famous examples of those great voyages which added so much to the knowledge of our world. Some paid the ultimate price for their heroic voyaging into the unknown; I'm glad that this remembers some of those explorers

memorial to Lieutenant John Irving, Royal Navy, of HMS Terror. The obelisk has a detailed memorial of events leading to his death - he was part of Sir John Franklin's famous expedition to find the fabled North West Passage in 1848 and 49.

The ships became trapped by the ice and after many had perished the survivors abandoned their vessels and tried to reach settlements in Canada by foot, but the intense cold and lack of food claimed the, Irving's grave there was found by a later American expedition, who honoured these earlier explorers by returning his remains to his native land.

This was an era where the all-powerful Royal Navy didn't just rule the waves protecting the global British Empire, it also sent vessels all over the world in a great age of exploration and scientific endeavour - expeditions like this or Darwin's voyages on the Beagle are just some of the more famous examples of those great voyages which added so much to the knowledge of our world. Some paid the ultimate price for their heroic voyaging into the unknown; I'm glad that this remembers some of those explorers