A traditional English fruitcake is not what researchers in the Antarctic expected to find inside an explorer’s camp. Having survived over a century of snow, ice and wind on what is regarded as one of the driest places on Earth, a team of modern explorers from New Zealand-based Antarctic Heritage Trust recently unearthed the fruitcake in a hut on Cape Adare that National Geographic describe as “Antarctica's oldest building.”
This 100-year-old traditional English treat was protected from the harsh environment because its original packaging remained intact. Conservators at the Antarctic Heritage Trust said the Antarctic fruitcake was found in “excellent condition,” wrapped in paper inside a corroded tin. Made by the British Biscuit Company , this favorite Victorian desert looks and smells “almost edible” and it is thought that was left by British explorer Robert Falcon Scott during his 1910 to 1913 Terra Nova expedition.
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