Tag: Port Lockroy

• Friday, February 24th 2023 - 10:44 UTC

  HMS Protector calls it a season, heads back north

  

  The Royal Navy's icebreaker HMS Protector has completed her Antarctic scientific mission for the 2023 Antarctic season safeguarding birdlife and laying the groundwork for further research, it was announced.

• Monday, December 5th 2022 - 10:25 UTC

  HMS Protector digs out snow covered Port Lockroy scientific base managed by four women

  

  Ice Patrol HMS Protector's sailors and Royal Marines spent two days digging out the Port Lockroy scientific base in Antarctica which is home to a museum, gift shop and the world's most remote post office.

• Thursday, April 7th 2022 - 09:13 UTC

  UKAHT hiring workers to monitor penguins in Antarctica

  

  The UK Antarctic Heritage Trust is offering part-time job opportunities for qualified candidates willing to spend several months at Port Lockroy, Base A.

• Friday, September 20th 2019 - 13:33 UTC

  Meet the world’s ‘coolest’ post office's new antarctic team

  

  The United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust (UKAHT) is delighted to reveal the new Port Lockroy team who will live and work on the remote island of Port Lockroy off the Antarctic Peninsula during the next Austral Antarctic summer (November 2019 – March 2020).

• Wednesday, October 17th 2018 - 07:44 UTC

  UK Antarctic Heritage Trust announces a new Port Lockroy team for 2018/19

  

  The United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust (UKAHT) is delighted to reveal details of the quintet who will live and work at Port Lockroy on a remote island off the Antarctic Peninsula during the 2018/19 Austral Antarctic summer (November – March).

• Monday, October 2nd 2017 - 14:12 UTC

  Supplies in Falklands ready for shipping to Antarctica's Port Lockroy, the most remote post office

  

  Brooms to clean bird droppings, along with thousands of toy penguins, are among tons of items being shipped out to the UK's most remote post office. Each year, four scientists become postmasters, manning the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust's post office at Port Lockroy in Antarctica for four months.

• Monday, June 23rd 2014 - 22:06 UTC

  UKAH marks 70th anniversary of Operation Tabarin and Antarctica research

  

  The United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust (UKAHT) marked the 70th anniversary of Operation Tabarin, which laid the foundations for one of the most important and enduring government sponsored programs of scientific research in the Polar Regions, with a special exhibition and reception at the House of Commons.

• Monday, March 12th 2012 - 07:56 UTC

  Workers for Antarctica sought

  

  The United Kingdom Antarctica Heritage Fund UKAHT (http://www.ukaht.org/) is seeking new candidates to work at Port Lockroy for the 2012/2013 season. Deadline for applications is at 12 noon on the 30th March.