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

The team will abandon home comforts to live and work in the region without running water or a flushing toilet.
Four women to run world’s most remote post office in Antarctica
Port Lockroy (UK Antarctic Heritage Trust/PA)

Four women are to travel to a distant part of Antarctica 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.

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