An all-female team of four is getting ready to travel 9,000 miles from England to Antarctica on a mission to reopen the world’s most southerly, and most remote, post office and museum.
Besting 4,000 other candidates for the coveted posts, the women will station at Port Lockroy on Goudier Island in the Antarctic Peninsula, a historic site run by the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust (UKAHT). Starting early November, the assignment will last five months—through the winter and Christmas—and will mark the first time the charity’s flagship site has been opened since the pandemic.
