A crate of Scotch whiskey that once belonged to famous polar explorer Ernest Shackleton was opened Friday, several months after having been rescued from a 100-plus old prison of Antarctic ice.

Sue Halliwell marks the 150th anniversary of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s birth by tracing his ill-fated British ...

In 1914, when European tensions were mounting, Vat 69 whisky was brought along by Ernest Shackleton on his Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, where it was reportedly used for “medicinal and ...