It won't quite be penguin soup. Instead, buzzard's cake and roast beef with Yorkshire pudding have been lifted straight from the menu of the 1911 Terra Nova expedition to Antarctica for the first mid-winter celebration of explorer Tom Crean by the society named after him.
Around 200 people will attend the dinner tonight in the Brandon Hotel, Tralee.
The man who ran away from his native west Kerry at the age of 15 to join the British navy spent 16 years on Antarctic expeditions with explorers Scott, Evans and Shackleton.
He returned to buy a pub, naming it the South Pole Inn, in Anascaul. He died in 1938, the true nature of his exploits known only to a few.
Descendants of the great polar families will be in Anascaul this weekend.
These include Mr Brook Evans, the son of Captain Teddy Evans of the Terra Nova 1911-1913 expedition who owes his life to Crean, and Captain Robert Scott's grandson, Mr Falcon Scott. Mr Jonathan Shackleton, a grandson of Sir Ernest Shackleton, will give a lecture on revisiting Antarctica at the South Pole Inn tomorrow. There will also be a preview of the first Tom Crean Society adventure to Antarctica and South Georgia which takes place in February.