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Five crates of whiskey and brandy belonging to polar explorer Ernest Shackleton have been recovered after being buried for more than 100 years under the Antarctic ice. The spirits were excavated from beneath Shackleton's Antarctic hut which was built in 1908. "To our amazement we found five crates, three labeled as containing whiskey and two labeled as containing brandy," said Al Fastier of the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust. Shackleton's expedition ran short of supplies on their long trek to the South Pole in 1907-1909 and they eventually fell about 100 miles short of their goal. No lives, however, were lost in the expedition.