The snack was found in the hut at Cape Royds in the Antarctic where Shackleton was based during his Nimrod expedition.

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We take off by helicopter from America's main research base in Antarctica toward Cape Royds, where exactly 100 years ago, in 1908, scientists started studying the local penguin colony.

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