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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Nina Lloyd

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

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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 the historic site Port Lockroy, on Goudier Island.

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