WayOdd (Free subscription) | yesterday
Two crates of Scotch whisky belonging to a famous explorer are to be dug up from the Arctic. The whiskey - left by the Irish polar explorer Ernest Shackleton in 1907 - was found hidden under a hut built and used during an unsuccessful South Pole expedition.
PBS (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Explorer Ernest Shackleton's cabin in Antarctica is slowly deteriorating. While working to remove ice from underneath the hut that was causing fungus to grow, scientists made an interesting discovery -- cases of whisky that had fused to the underlying rock. Freelance journalist Emily Stone describes the find.
PBS (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Explorer Ernest Shackleton's cabin in Antarctica is slowly deteriorating. While working to remove ice from underneath the hut that was causing fungus to grow, scientists made an interesting discovery -- cases of whisky that had fused to the underlying rock. Freelance journalist Emily Stone describes the find.
Environment (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... coast around Cape Denison, an area west of the region visited by Britain’s Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton . He set up a wireless relay station on Macquarie Island, which would later transmit the first Antarctic radio signals. On January 8, 1912 Mawson reached Cape Denison, at the western end of a great bay Mawson named Commonwealth Bay, the windiest place on Earth. Reuters correspondent...
