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MacKintosh Hayward Spencer-Smith Cross
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Cross erected at Cape Evans near Scott's hut, in memory of Aeneas Lionel Acton Mackintosh and Victor Hayward, members of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1914–17 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. They died in a blizard during an attempt on 8 May 1916 to walk across McMurdo Sound from from Hut Point to to Cape Evans. Their bodies were never found. Also of Rev. Arnold Patrick Spencer-Smith, a member of Shackleton's party, who died of scurvy on the Great Ice Barrier on 9 March 1916. The inscription at the base of the cross reads: SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF CAPT. A.L.A. MacKINTOSH. R.N.R. AND V.G.HAYWARD WHO PERISHED ON THE SEA-ICE IN A BLIZZARD ABOUT MAY 18TH 1916 AND OF THE REV. A.P. SPENCER-SMITH. B.A. WHO DIED ON THE ROSS BARRIER ON MARCH 16TH 1916. A PAPER BEARING THIS INSCRIPTION, WRITTEN BY THEIR COMRADE A.K.K JACK WAS FOUND IN THE ICE FILLED HUT BY THE NEW ZEALAND HUTS RESTORATION PARTY, 1960.JACK AND JOYCE WHO MADE AND ERECTED THIS CROSS HAD NOT ENOUGH TIME TO CARVE THE INSCRIPTION ON IT. THIS PLAQUE WAS ERECTED BY ANTARCTIC DIVISION D-S.I.R. N.Z. 1962-1963.. Modelled by Peter Olsen, Brighton-le-Sands, Sydney, Australia.
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