Dream job in Antarctica: Count penguins when they hatch and run a post office

The UK Antarctic Heritage trust is forming a new team to be based at Port Lockroy in Antarctica. Physical fitness, environmental awareness and knowledge of minimum-impact living are prerequisites for the jobs.

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Vacancies are open for the roles including base leader, shop manager, and general assistant at a gift shop and post office from November this year to March, next year.

If you are looking for a job in a remote place, there is an offer that allows you to count penguins on the job as well. The world’s remotest post office, in Antarctica, is looking for people.

The UK Antarctic Heritage trust is forming a new team to be based at Port Lockroy in Antarctica. Vacancies are open for roles such as base leader, shop manager, and gift shop assistant and post office assistant from November this year to March next year, as per the trust’s website. The trust conserves six designated, historic sites and monuments on the Antarctic Peninsula.

As per a BBC report, the work will also include counting penguins as part of the Gentoo penguin colony conservation. Physical fitness, environmental awareness and knowledge of minimum-impact living are prerequisites for the jobs.

Applications are invited till April 25, but only those with the right to work in the United Kingdom are eligible to apply. “Dream of waking up & seeing Antarctica in all its glory? Penguins plodding around, the sun peeping over snow-topped mountains. A job like no other. Join us & help protect Antarctica’s heritage & conserve its precious environment. Apply by 25 April,” read the trust’s tweet.

Dream of waking up & seeing Antarctica in all its glory? Penguins plodding around, the sun peeping over snow topped mountains. A job like no other. Join us & help protect Antarctica's heritage & conserve its precious environment. Apply by 25 April. https://t.co/NPSf6dKLdi pic.twitter.com/GmJYIq5w1m

— UK Antarctic Heritage Trust (@AntarcticHT) April 4, 2022

Netizens were excited about the job opportunity. “Count penguins and run the post office, a dream job for someone,” commented a user.

See reactions:

Considering this position,…. Can I hug the penguins?

— mykelle roberts (@Gravegurl666) April 6, 2022

Unsanitary conditions were dealt with, thinking outside the box and using our ‘techi’ heads. We boiled & filtered water. Can you collect, melt, boil and filter snow/ice and there must be a way of producing running water and ashower🚿. Come on techis and engineers, help out here!

— Margaret Taylor PhD (@MgtTaylor1) April 7, 2022

Sincerely Interested
From India

— Hannibal Barca (@HannibalSpeaks) April 7, 2022

Count penguins and run the post office, a dream job for someone. 🐧 🐧 🐧 https://t.co/DxNxPmQQda

— Michael Greer 💙 (@MGreer_PR) April 7, 2022

Having spent a season here, I can truly say this is the best office in the world! This is your chance to work at the Penguin Post Office… 😊🐧😊 https://t.co/u6vhPebHDe

— Ruth Peacey (@ruthpeacey) April 6, 2022

Working in the gift shop and counting penguins!? Yes, please! 🐧 https://t.co/3cXiB7gkZF

— Ficola Nurphy (@Poppets16) April 5, 2022

Lauren Elliott, a postmaster who worked there in 2019, was quoted as saying by the BBC that it was “the most magical place in the world”.

“It was really exciting, we got to count all the penguins when they hatched. You have to do a lot of cleaning and there’s lots of penguin poo, which we call guano, but there’s never time to be bored – It’s a really interesting place,” he told the BBC.