Four women are to give up their home comforts to live and work in a remote part of Antarctica.
Clare Ballantyne, Mairi Hilton, Natalie Corbett and Lucy Bruzzone make up the team picked to take on the responsibility for managing historic site Port Lockroy, on Goudier Island.
They were among 6,000 people who expressed an interest in the roles – including running the world’s most remote post office and counting the island’s penguins – which were advertised by the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust (UKAHT) charity.
The team will travel 9,000 miles to reopen the bay for the first time since the pandemic, taking care of the charity’s flagship site – home also to the world’s most remote museum.
They will be based on the island – in a region without running water or a flushing toilet – for five months, which means they will spend Christmas together.
As well as dealing with sub-zero temperatures and almost constant daylight, the women will share the island with a colony…
