Bristol festival worker to become Antarctic postmaster

George Clarke will staff the most southerly post office in the world, living among a penguin colony.

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George Clarke, 34, from Bristol, who has never worked in a post office, said: "I'm used to working away, working abroad in crews, but nothing like this."

The interview process involved "lots of weird and wonderful tasks", he said, including having to put up a tent while blindfolded and wearing oven mitts.

Mr Clarke will spend five months living with four other workers on Port Lockroy, alongside the resident Gentoo penguin colony.

Mr Clarke told BBC Radio Bristol he had always had an interest in the outdoors, but added: "This is in a league of its own. It's a brand new adventure."

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