Shackleton’s Scotch: Coming to an Auction House Near You?

Travel Blog • Eva Holland • 11.03.09 | 2:43 PM ET

Two cases of the explorer’s drink of choice have been discovered under a hut at Cape Royds, apparently left behind after a failed 1909 polar expedition. The question now, of course: What will happen to the excavated bottles? If they do go to auction, maybe the lucky buyer will want to BYOB on Shackleton’s ship-turned-restaurant.