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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Sir Ernest Shackleton's Stash








In 1909, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton lead a failed expedition to the South Pole. As part of the trip, he and his crew constructed a hut on an Antarctic peninsula called Cape Royds. In 2006 some visitors to Shackleton's hut discovered two cases of whiskey. This winter a group of explorers will try to break the whiskey out of the ice so it can be studied. Read more here: Whisky on (Antarctic) Ice.

Here's the layout of Shackleton's cabin. Thanks Angelo.

1 comment:

Angelo R. said...

http://www.norwaysforgottenexplorer.org/content/library/Extract_from_CR_Conservation_Plan_1909_Hut_Layout1.pdf