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Sat 02 Feb 2010Ancient crates of spirits found in ice under hut of Irish Antarctic explorer
FIVE CRATES of alcohol have been excavated from under Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic hut. The crates are believed to have been left behind over 100 years ago.
A New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust team of conservators were aware that perhaps two crates of whisky were buried beneath Shackleton’s only Antarctic hut, built during his unsuccessful South Pole expedition between 1907 and 1909.
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