Four women selected to run world’s most remote post office in Antartica

The women beat a record number of applicants to become the team responsible for managing the historic site

Port Lockroy, Antartica

Four women are to travel to a distant part of Antartica to take up jobs including running the world’s most remote post office and counting the island’s penguins.

Clare Ballantyne, Mairi Hilton, Natalie Corbett and Lucy Bruzzone beat a record number of applicants to become the team responsible for managing historic site Port Lockroy, on Goudier Island.