Four women to run post office and count penguins in Antarctica

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Four women to run post office and count penguins in Antarctica
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The team will also monitor a colony of gentoo penguins on Goudier Island for five months.

Lucy Bruzzone, Clare Ballantyne, Natalie Corbett and Mairi Hilton will spend five months on Goudier Island

The team will travel 9,000 miles from the UK to reopen the bay for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic.Image caption,Newlywed Ms Corbett, in charge of running the gift shop at the sites museum, will leave behind her husband for the trip, which she dubbed a "solo honeymoon"."Who wouldn't want to spend five months working on an island filled with penguins in one of the most remote places on the planet?" she said.

"I'm a conservation biologist, so personally I can't wait to see the penguins and other wildlife like seabirds and whales."

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