Specialists from New Zealand plan to recover two crates of Scotch whisky left more than 100 years ago by the polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and trapped deep in Antarctic ice. A spokesman for the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust said the whisky trove had been found under a hut built at Cape Royds, a promontory on McMurdo Sound, during Mr. Shackleton’s first South Pole expedition of 1907-9. The expedition ended in failure when the explorer was forced to turn back about 100 miles from the pole. A trust spokesman said the crates and the bottles would undergo conservation work in New Zealand before being returned to the hut, which is being restored as a museum. The spokesman, Al Fastier, said there were no plans to sample the McKinlay & Co. whisky, but the distiller Whyte & Mackay, owner of the brand, said it hoped to acquire a bottle with a view to recreating the century-old blend.