The Great Whisky Crate Thaw

In January 2010 the Trust's team of conservators excavated 5 crates from beneath Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1908 base in Antarctica. Three were labelled as containing whisky and two labelled as containing brandy.

One of the frozen whisky crates has been flown back to New Zealand. In collaboration with Canterbury Museum in New Zealand, the Trust is thawing and conserving the crate in a custom-built refrigerated laboratory to determine whether whisky still remains.