Posted on 11/16/2009 8:36:45 AM PST by buccaneer81
Edited on 11/16/2009 8:37:55 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- A beverage company has asked a team to drill through Antarctica's ice for a lost cache of some vintage Scotch whiskey that has been on the rocks since a century ago.
The drillers will be trying to reach two crates of McKinlay and Co. whiskey that were shipped to the Antarctic by British polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton as part of his abandoned 1909 expedition.
(Excerpt) Read more at dispatch.com ...
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