Four British women are preparing to spend Christmas in the world's most southerly post office.
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Clare was chosen along with three other women - Mairi Hilton, Lucy Bruzzone and Natalie Corbett - to look after the remote harbour of Port Lockroy, some 911 miles south of the Falkland Islands.UK Antarctic Heritage TrustOnce a British military base and research station, nowadays it consists of a post office, a museum and a gift shop. The team plays host to passing cruise ships and keeps an eye on the island's population of around 1,000 gentoo penguins.
By the time I speak with Clare and Mairi, they have already spent several weeks in Port Lockroy and the team has settled into a well-oiled routine. "We get up at 7am," Mairi says. "We have breakfast, and go down to dig out the landing site where the guests arrive. "We don't have any running water, so we get our drinking water from cruise ships," Mairi says, "and we also get showers there."
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