Bernacchi Tribute is a life-sized sculpture commemorating the life of the scientist, photographer and writer Louis Charles Bernacchi (1876-1942). Bernacchi was raised in Tasmania, where he first developed a lifelong interest in physics. Specialising in terrestrial magnetism, he went to Antarctica with Borchgrevink's Southern Cross expedition in 1898 and with Robert Scott in 1901.

Just to the south of this sculpture was the old Queen's Wharf from which Aurora departed for the Antarctic, carrying Douglas Mawson's celebrated Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914.