The Hope Point memorial cross, erected by Shackleton‘s men when he died on South Georgia in 1916, was removed in 2019 as it was showing signs of rot. Once it was deemed beyond repair, a replacement was put in place, with the cairn being rebuilt to look more like its original form – It had been rebuilt when it was moved a few metres to make way for a gun emplacement during the second world war.
Initial plans to display the original cross in the Museum at Grytviken were dropped when there was not a realistic way of acheiving this without cutting some of the cross off, or making a hole in the museum floor. Instead it was moved to Discovery Point in Dundee, Scotland. Here it has been put on display on a wall, protected in a glass case, with a background of the view of the scenery (Brown Mountain) in the background and an outline of the cairn painted onto the glass.
