The UK Antarctic Heritage Trust is hiring a team of five for its 2024/2025 season at Port Lockroy in Antarctica. Job duties include sorting postcards sent by cruise ship passengers to the penguins. Applicants must be physically fit.
If penguin-counting and sorting postcards addressed to penguins at the world’s southernmost post office sounds exciting, Port Lockroy in Antarctica may have the perfect job for you. The UK Antarctic Heritage Trust, which owns and operates Port Lockroy in Antarctica , is hiring a team of five for its 2024/2025 season, which starts in late October or early November and lasts through March 2025.
Job duties include sorting some 80,000 postcards sent by cruise ship passengers to the penguins on Antarctica. Applicants must be at least 18 years old, and while there’s no age limit, 'applicants must be physically fit.
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