‘Coolest job on Earth’: Antarctica welcomes new postmaster

UK Antarctic Heritage Trust fills vacancy at world’s most southerly post office, as well as recruiting team to monitor wildlife and carry out building repairs

As a professional “tent master”, whose work involves building big tops at music festivals, George Clarke has never run a post office – and certainly never counted penguins for a living.

But these and other idiosyncratic tasks will become part of his daily routine when he joins a small team of new recruits to “the coolest jobs on Earth”, staffing the world’s most southerly museum and post office in Antarctica.