Commander Frank Arthur Worsley Dso and Bar, OBE, Rnr
A plaque at Frank Worsley Bust, standing in Akaroa. The words below are the register’s own transcription, the casing, the spelling, the typos.
COMMANDER FRANK ARTHUR WORSLEY DSO AND BAR, OBE, RNR. BORN AND RAISED IN AKAROA 1872. DIED ENGLAND 1943. FRANK WORSLEY WAS CAPTAIN OF THE ENDURANCE WHICH WAS CRUSHED IN THE ICE DURING SHACKLETON’S ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1914–16. HE NAVIGATED THE 28FT JAMES CAIRD 800 MILES TO SOUTH GEORGIA IN AN EPIC VOYAGE. SUBSEQUENTLY ALL 28 CREW WERE RESCUED.
The register’s own frame
The council’s image, opened at its own host, the frame is the record’s, the reading is yours.
Where it stands
The record’s own pin; the strong outline is the suburb around it, the rest are its neighbours.
In the archive
A name read off an inscription is a lead, not a verified identity, the search is where verification starts.
The ground under it
The plans and surveys kept here, asked once of the pin. The whole stack answers live: what stood on this ground →
Around it
The reports nearby
246 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Roads & footpaths and Water & drains, 210 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Water Leak
Water Leak
Sewer - Leak / Blockage
Pavement - Damaged
Street Gutters / Storm Water
Water Leak
Facility - General Request
Damaged Road
Damaged Road
Pavement - Damaged
Pavement - Damaged
Pavement - DamagedQuestions, answered briefly
A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Frank Worsley Bust in Akaroa, one record on the council’s plaque register for the public estate.
The words above, verbatim, the surveyor’s transcription, casing, spelling and typos as they were read off the plaque. The register does not say who the name belonged to; the dedication is the whole of the record.
The register marks it in service, commissioned 2008. The books' word, though, a plaque may have weathered since the survey, and the pin is the record’s position.
The record behind this
Christchurch City Council’s open data, the Furniture service’s Plaque layer. The inscription is the surveyor’s transcription; "In Service" is the books, not a promise the plaque still reads clean today. The pin is the record’s position on the layer.
This page as markdown: /plaque/6111-frank-worsley-bust.md · the roll: /plaques · the record as data: /plaques.json · on the big map: /map?layer=plaques · the monuments the crowd mapped: /memorial · what stood on this ground before: /before.