A crate of Scotch whisky that was frozen in Antarctic ice for a century has been opened. The crate was recovered from the Antarctic hut of renowned explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. It’s been thawing gradually at a museum in New Zealand. Researchers found 11 carefully wrapped bottles of Mackinlay’s Scotch whisky inside. But after being trapped in ice, the booze won’t be served on the rocks. Master blenders will examine small samples of the Scotch to try to reconstruct the original recipe. The bottles will eventually be returned to the Antarctic where they were found. Shackleton brought the whiskey, about 10 years old at the time, to Antarctica with his 1907-1909 Nimrod expedition. He and three companions came within 112 miles of the South Pole.
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