This is a 10L bucket container at the posted co-ordinates. As it is a letterbox, please remember that the rubber stamp is not a trade item, it is intended to stay within the cache.
When letterboxers find the container, they stamp the logbook with their personal stamp, and also stamp their own notebook with the stamp from the letterbox as a souvenir of their visit. The stamp and logbook remain in the letterbox for the next visitor to use.
The cache is hidden below the Scotts Memorial near the Centenary Lookout.
The ill-fated Scott expedition left Port Chalmers for Antarctica on 19 November 1910. After news of the death of Captain Scott and members of his party reached New Zealand, places as far apart as Warkworth, Christchurch and Queenstown decided to erect memorials in their honour. In March 1913 the Port Chalmers Borough Council, for its part, decided to erect a memorial cairn on Height Rock, overlooking the harbour.
This was paid for largely by public subscriptions. The foundation stone was laid on 13 December 1913. Prime Minister W.F. Massey formally unveiled the monument on 30 May 1914.
The structure, designed by architect Robert Burnside, consisted of a tall and gently tapering column of Port Chalmers stone, surmounted by an anchor. On the landward side was inset a marble tablet inscribed with (inter alia) the names of those who perished: Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Dr Edward Adrian Wilson, Captain Lawrence E.G. Oates, Lieutenant Henry R. Bowers and Petty Officer Edgar Evans.
