Capt Robert Falcon Scott RN

Now this is really an Off-topic topic ...... but from a time when we were all very much more of a close family.

Scott Base on Ross Island in Antarctica is New Zealand's Antarctic Research base; very near to this base On Discovery Point is the hut that Scott had built for the ill-fated 1912 expeditition. This hut has been in the deep freeze ever since those times and its almost as if its previous occupants have only just left it and may return at any moment.

What is believed to be the world's oldest block of butter has been discovered in the Antarctic.

The Kiwi butter was found frozen in the stable area adjacent to Robert Falcon Scott's hut.

"I think the butter was absolutely a treasure find," says Lizzie Meek, Antarctic Heritage Trust.

Until recently much of the hut was surrounded by snow and ice. A restoration team were working on the adjoining stables when they made the discovery, near a pile of empty butter boxes.

"Oh just tremendous! It looked like an old wrinkly bag and you look inside and saw the wonderful Silver Fern logo," says Meek.

The two-block butter is believed to be the oldest in the world.

"What's amazing is how strong that smells. Nearly a 100 years - very very strong, possibly a bit too strong?" Meek says.

The butter will now be carefully restored........

http://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/videos/3156709/Ancient-Kiwi-butter-found-in-Antarctica

Robert F. Scott was one of the early British Antarctic explorers. He led two of the most ambitious expeditions into the continent, the Discovery expedition (1901-1904) where he walked around a lot, and the infamous Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913) where he walked to his death.

http://thedryvalleys.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/scott/

Ruth ..... the worst sin you could possibly commit is to call a Kiwi an Aussie! Although both societies are very similar, and share many things including heritage .... there is a difference believe me! Vive la différence!

To a casual ear maybe we do sound a bit British, but probably Australians would dispute that. My class (11yr olds) used to correspond by exchanging audio tapes (pre-WWW times) with a French Canadian class learning english ....  one teacher commented that we were all tres sympathique and that I sounded english.  

I love stories like that.Thanks for sharing, Kahu. :-)

Me??? Never!!!!

I suppose its a bit like me trying to differentiate between Canadians and Americans ...... Canadians always seem to 'go oat in a boat'.

Then I guess I wasn't hearing things.  As for the American and Canadian accents, some of those "oat in boat" people could very well be from Minnesota or Wisconsin.