It’s certainly one of the most remote courses in the world, but also one with the cutest neighbors. For five months, volunteers from Britain will count penguins in Antarctica, run the world’s southernmost post office and do conservation work.
The organization UK Antarctic Heritage Trust (UKAHT) announced that two ‘resilient’ teams had been selected for the task, almost 9,000 miles south of London.
Basis also sends thousands of postcards
In concrete terms, this concerns the administration of the British base in Port Lockroy on Goudier Island. During the Antarctic summer, five women and men in the area count gentoo penguin nests, their eggs and chicks, and care for the museum there and the thousands of postcards sent annually.
Here, an employee in Port Lockroy shows off her workplace and her animal neighbors:
The island, the size of a football field, has no running water or a toilet, but has almost constant daylight and temperatures below freezing. Each team member can bring a box with games, books or photos.
Another group for repair work
The second half of the group has an even more difficult task ahead of them. She must fight her way to Blaiklock Island Refuge, UKAHT’s smallest and most inaccessible site, which can only be reached by boat. Urgent repairs must be carried out in “inhospitable conditions” to bring the historic buildings back into shape. It is important to preserve the site as a time capsule, said UKAHT boss Camilla Nichol. The helpers will also be tasked with cataloging historical artifacts and collecting digital footage.
Source: Krone
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