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. The team will abandon home comforts to live and work in the region without running water or a flushing toilet.
Newlywed Natalie, who will be in charge of running the gift shop, will leave behind her husband for the trip, which she dubbed a “solo honeymoon”. As well as dealing with sub-zero temperatures and almost constant daylight, the women will share the island with a colony of gentoo penguins, which Mairi will be in charge of monitoring.
