4 UK Women Will Run World's Remotest Post Office In Antarctica And Count Penguins

Four UK women have signed up for the 'coolest' job in the world¡ª literally and figuratively.

Four women will run the world's most remote post office in Antarctica. They will also be responsible for counting the penguin population throughout their five-month stay.

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This year's management team for Port Lockroy on Goudier Island consists of Clare Ballantyne, Mairi Hilton, Natalie Corbett, and Lucy Bruzzone.

The UK Antarctic Heritage Trust selected the team responsible for maintaining the Port Lockroy base.

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The Cambridge-based charity posts job openings at the location each year for temporary postmasters.

Candidates must have a high level of physical fitness, awareness of the environment, and an understanding of minimal living.

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The Antarctica stint often receives numerous applications; nevertheless, this year, it received a record-breaking 6,000.

The team is in charge of looking after the old structures and artifacts in Antarctica. The four women have given up their home comforts for five extraordinary months while enduring subzero temperatures, a lack of running water, power, or flushing toilets, and uninterrupted daylight.

The 40-year-old Londoner, Lucy Bruzzone, previously worked in the Arctic as the expedition's chief scientist for three months. She will supervise the team on behalf of the base and plan any ship visits to the island. Ms. Bruzzone described her new position as "a lifelong dream."

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23-year-old Lincolnshire native Clare Ballantyne recently earned her master's degree in earth science from Oxford University.

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She has just been appointed postmaster and will deal personally with the 80,000 cards sent from the location to more than 100 countries.

"I'm most looking forward to stepping onto Goudier Island and taking in the cacophony and pungent smell of the penguins, the backdrop of the glaciers and Fief mountains, and being able to call it home for the next few months," she said.

Ms. Corbett, a 31-year-old newlywed, will manage the museum's gift shop. She labels the trip as a "solo honeymoon."

"Who wouldn't want to spend five months working on an island filled with penguins in one of the most remote places on the planet?" she said.

Vicky Inglis, 42, will work with the group for ten weeks as a general assistant. Vicky Inglis has already lived on the island. From 1944 to 1962, Port Lockroy was in operation. Furthermore, it was the first permanent British base on the Antarctic Peninsula. It's been a post office and museum since 2006.

Even though the location receives over 18,000 tourists a year during the Antarctic summer, no one has arrived during the past two years of the pandemic. The team this year would be the first to use the site since 2019.

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