Shackletons Whisky
The year before last I wrote about the discovery of Shackletons Whisky in Antarctica. An amazing story about the discovery of full whisky bottles from his 1907 Nimrod excursion to the Antarctic.
This weekend the bottles were returned to the ice by John Key.
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