Scotch comes home

[bixaorellana]

Three bottles of whisky abandoned in the Antarctic ice by British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton more than a century ago have returned home to Scotland.

www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/01/18/3115330.htm?section=justin

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Seems like ideal storage conditions to me, not at all "some of the harshest conditions on this planet."

[BigIain]

I read that too. It's very rare, possibly discontinued brand. I guess nobody knows how much it is actually worth until it goes on auction. I have a feeling that the millionaire owner of Whyte and McKay would love them to be worth a fortune now that he is the owner of the bottles.

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It might turn out that they abandoned those particular cases because they thought it tasted like shite.

[bixaorellana]

Have you all ever seen the photos of Shackleton's hut and its contents?
myamazingfact.blogspot.com/2010/02/scott-and-shackletons-abandoned-huts-in.html


This article is from December 2009, before the bottles were recovered. It gives weight to Kerouac's theory about why the bottles were left behind.
outsideonline.com/culture/200912/ernest-shackleton-lost-whiskey.html