817-216993 - Grosse Stehende, The big standing, sculpture of a mourning sailors wife by Werner Stoetzer along the Mole quai, Rostock-Warnemuende, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany
817-216992 - Grosse Stehende, The big standing, sculpture of a mourning sailors wife by Werner Stoetzer along the Mole quai, Rostock-Warnemuende, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany
829-946 - The Da Gama padrao, a monument to Vasco Da Gama in the Cape Point Nature Reserve in South Africa. Da Gama was a Portuguese sailor/explorer and led expeditions from the Cape to the East in 1497. A padrao is a limestone pillar bearing the Portuguese coat of arms and an inscription stating when and by whom it was raised. The cross signified Portuguese sovereignty and Christianity.