A group of researchers with the Antarctic Heritage Trust has made a spirituous discovery buried beneath the hut of turn-of-the-century polar explorer Ernest Shackleton: three crates of Scotch whisky and two of brandy, abandoned by Shackleton after a failed expedition in 1909:

Richard Peterson, a master blender for Whyte & Mackay, which supplied the Shackleton expedition with 25 crates of Mackinlay’s “Rare and Old” whisky, described the unearthing of the bottles as “a gift from the heavens for whisky lovers,” since the recipe for that blend has been lost. “If the contents can be confirmed, safely extracted and analyzed, the original blend may be able to be replicated.”