World’s most remote job: Five ‘everyday’ Brits to staff Earth’s southernmost post office and museum (with duties for one to include telling the outside world they’re still ALIVE) [Video]

12:55 EDT 29 Oct 2024, updated 15:07 EDT 29 Oct 2024

Five ‘everyday’ Britons are about to receive a major shock to the system – they’re being sent to one of the most remote and inhospitable places on the planet to live and work.

This week, the group are being sent 9,000 miles away by the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust (UKAHT) to staff Earth’s southernmost post office and museum on football-pitch-sized Goudier Island. Their neighbours? Around 1,000 gentoo penguins.

The small cluster of buildings they’ll live and work in for five months is called ‘Base A, Port Lockroy’ – and carries renown as the birthplace of British Antarctic science.

They’ll have to deal with constant sunlight, sleeping in a shared bunkroom, a total lack of phone reception and limited internet access via satellite link. 

There’s no running water or flushing toilet – and if they want a shower they’ll need to wait until they can board one of the semi-regular cruise …