microgiant t1_ismvso4 wrote on October 17, 2022 at 4:06 AM

Reply to comment by Dwarf-Lord_Pangolin in TIL that before the invention of regfrigeration in 1851, ice had to be imported to Australia from Boston, Massachusetts. The ice blocks travelled through the tropics inside ships insulated with timber, straw, peat, and sawdust by stumcm

I guess OP stumcm already gave you an answer to this, but I just wanted to say this seems like an eminently reasonable question. Antarctica is really close by.