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.