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Four women have been selected for an unusual job in Antarctica—running the world’s most southerly post office and gift shop, and counting penguins.

Port Lockroy, the post office which also serves as a museum, has been closed since COVID-19 began. In preparation of re-opening Port Lockroy, the U.K. Antarctic Heritage Trust posted four job positions: a base leader, postmaster, shop manager and wildlife monitor. They received 6,000 applications, but four women were chosen to travel 9,000 miles to do the job: Clare Ballantyne, Mairi Hilton, Natalie Corbett and Lucy Bruzzone. Vicky Inglis, who had worked there before, will return for 10 weeks as the team’s leader to help get them settled.

Clare Ballantyne is the postmaster. She will be in charge of dealing with about 80,000 postcards mailed from Port Lockroy each year. Mairi Hilton is the wildlife monitor. She will be in charge of counting the penguin population and keeping an eye on baby penguins and nests. Natalie Corbett will be the shop manager. She will look after the gift shop, which can receive up to 18,000 visitors during the season. Lucy Bruzzone is the base leader. She will manage the team, and manage all ship visits.

The team will work for five months at Goudier Island in the Antarctic Peninsula, abandoning all “home comforts”. They won’t have running water or a flushing toilet, and will deal with low temperatures. They will live in almost entire daylight, as the place has about six months of daylight during its summer months—October to February—and six months of darkness in its winter months, March to September.

The women will begin training this month, including lessons from a “penguinologist(企鹅学家),” and will also get remote first aid training. They will begin their mission in early November and will stay in Antarctica until March 2023.