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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Esther Addley

‘Coolest job on Earth’: Antarctica welcomes new postmaster

Penguins at Port Lockroy on Goudier Island in Antarctica.
Penguins at Port Lockroy on Goudier Island in Antarctica. Photograph: Jerome Viard/PA

As a professional “tent master”, whose work involves building big tops at music festivals, George Clarke has never run a post office – and certainly never counted penguins for a living.

But these and other idiosyncratic tasks will become part of his daily routine when he joins a small team of new recruits to “the coolest jobs on Earth”, staffing the world’s most southerly museum and post office in Antarctica.

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