Casgliadau Arlein

Figure head of the British Antarctic Expedition ship TERRA NOVA, in which Captain Scott sailed from the port of Cardiff, 15 June 1910. The figurehead was presented to Cardiff Corporation by Frederick Charles Bowring, Esq. J.P., of Liverpool (the commemorative plaque bearing the date 8th December 1913). It stood for many years in the city's Roath Park and was then presented to the National Museum of Wales by Cardiff City Council in 1932.

In 1912, Captain Scott and his four companions, Wilson, Bowers, Oates and Evans, died on their way back from the South Pole. The story of their journey has become one of the greatest epics of British exploration.