Geo answer
The answer to our Geo Quiz today is Ross Island, Antarctica. That’s where a hut used by polar explorer Ernest Shackleton still stands, and where some whiskey bottles have been buried in ice for over a century. Richard Paterson at Whyte & Mackay’s whisky distillery in Glasgow, Scotland tells anchor Marco Werman about the quest to salvage some of that vintage scotch.
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