Location of Port Lockroy
Port Lockroy is a bay forming a natural harbour on the north-western shore of Wiencke Island in the Palmer Archipelago to the west of the Antarctic Peninsula. The Antarctic base with the same name, situated on Goudier Island in this bay, includes the most southerly operational post office in the world. The base was left unstaffed from 2020 to 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, though the museum house remained open to individual visits. On 4 October 2022 it was announced that a team of four women had been chosen to return to open the base for the summer 2022/23 season.[1][2]
- ^ "Four women to run post office and count penguins in Antarctica". BBC News. 4 October 2022. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
- ^ "Royal Navy digs out world's most remote post office from Antarctic snow". BBC News. 4 December 2022.