The UK Antarctic Heritage Trust is searching for people to spend five months at the Port Lockroy base in Antarctica, to run the world’s most remote post office.
Port Lockroy. Picture: Flickr Commons/ Christopher Michel
The team will be without running water while they take on the responsibility of counting penguins, but the Antarctic Heritage Trust say they tend to get hundreds of applications for this job.
Chosen candidates will be the first to live at the site since the last intake in 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic. Port Lockroy was the first permanent British base to be established on the Antarctic peninsula in 1944, which shares the space with a colony of gentoo penguins.
Since 2006, the site has been used as a post office and museum. The team will be tasked with running the gift shop and the post office, on top of counting the gentoo penguin colony for research purposes.
Even though the site has not been frequented since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the BBC, it usually welcomes around 18 000 people between November and March annually.
ALSO READ
Endurance was found after 100 years at the bottom of the Antarctic sea
