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Steven Rae

Scots woman travels 9,000 miles to Antarctica to take job in world’s most remote post office

A Scottish woman has been selected to travel to the South Pole to take up one of the most remote jobs in the world.

Mairi Hilton, a conservation biologist from Bo'ness, Falkirk, beat 6,000 applicants to live and work on Port Lockroy base on Goudier Island in Antarctica.

The base has served as a home for explorers, whalers, scientists and sailors for more than a century, reports the Scotsman.

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