World Scene: New Zealand

Drilling ice for whiskey

A beverage company has asked a team to drill through Antarctica's ice for a lost cache of some vintage Scotch whiskey that has been on the rocks since a century ago.

Workers from New Zealand's Antarctic Heritage Trust will try to reach two crates of McKinlay and Co. whiskey that were shipped to the Antarctic during an expedition in 1909. Whyte & Mackay, the drinks group that now owns McKinlay and Co, has asked for a sample of the 100-year-old scotch for a series of tests that could decide whether to relaunch the now-defunct Scotch. The crates were found under the hut's floorboards near Cape Royds in 2006.