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100-year-old fruit cake found in Antarctica ' still looks and smells good

Published by Business Insider on Thu, 17 Aug 2017


A 100-year-old fruit cake found in Antarctica wrapped in paper in a tin box looks and smells "almost edible".The New Zealand based Antarctic Heritage Trust says the cake, made by Huntley & Palmers in he UK, was found among artefacts from Cape Adare in East Antarctica and probably belonged to British explorer Robert Falcon Scott."The cake probably dates to the Cape Adare-based Northern Party of Scotts Terra Nova expedition (19101913) as it has been documented that Scott took this particular brand of cake with him at that time," the Antarctic Heritage Trust says.Although the tin was in poor condition, the cake itself looked and smelt (almost) edible."Finding such a perfectly preserved fruitcake in amongst the last handful of unidentified and severely corroded tins was quite a surprise," says programme manager-Artefacts Lizzie Meek."Its an ideal high-energy food for Antarctic conditions, and is still a favourite item on modern trips to the Ice."A team of four conservators have been working in the Canterbury Museum laboratory on the conservation of Antarctic artefacts from Cape Adare since May 2016.The Trust now plans conservation work on huts at Cape Adare, originally built by Norwegian Carsten Borchgrevinks expedition in 1899.The buildings were the first in Antarctica.Join the conversation about this storyNOW WATCH: 8 details you might have missed on season 7 episode 4 of 'Game of Thrones
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