Christchurch statue returns after earthquake repair

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A statue of Antarctic explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott was broken in the earthquake.

Scott of the Antarctic

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A digitally manipulated image of the damaged statue of Scott which was removed from its original site beside Worcester Boulevard for safekeeping. The photographer comments, "During the February 2011 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand the statue of Robert Falcon Scott broke across the ankles and most of the statue came crashing to the ground. To commemorate a 100 years of association with Antarctica Christchurch council has laid out for viewing the statue in a prostrate position. I was lucky to encounter the statue before it was put into its glass display enclosure".

Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 524

Images, UC QuakeStudies

Cordon fencing around the Robert Falcon Scott statue which has fallen from its plinth, on the corner of Worcester Boulevard and Oxford Terrace.

20130827_2686_1D3-28 Robert Falcon Scott

Images, eqnz.chch.2010

At least two broken pieces from the Scott statue rest in the Canterbury Museum. The statue toppled in the 22nd February 2011 earthquake.

Repairs underway for quake-damaged statue of Antarctica's Scott

Audio, Radio New Zealand

The statue of the Antarctic explorer, Robert Falcon Scott, that toppled from its plinth and snapped at its ankles in the Christchurch earthquake is being repaired. all going well it will be reinstated later this year, just in time for the Antarctic summer.

20130827_2674_1D3-35 Where Scott was

Images, eqnz.chch.2010

The site of the Robert Falcon Scott statue. Here is what it looked like before (lining up ICE from POLICE on the Police building) www.flickr.com/photos/johnstewartnz/5921425414/in/set-721...