Plan to recover two crates of Shackleton’s whisky buried in Antarctica

Tuesday, November 17th 2009 - 09:05 UTC

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Explorers are planning to recover a rare batch of whisky lost during explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated voyage to the South Pole a century ago. Two crates of the now extinct “Rare Old” brand of McKinlay and Co whisky have been buried in the Antarctic ice since Shackleton was forced to abandon his polar mission in 1909. Read full article

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While I understand that a precious liquid has been buried for so long in Antarctica I wonder whether the expedition will find anything, even knowing the precise place where the 'treasure' is. Why? The constant horizontal displacements of ice and the high pressures exerted should have done with all traces of it. Cheers!
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