A SCOT is to travel 11,000 miles to help run the most southerly post office in the world - in Antarctica.
Amy Kincaid, 23, from Oban, will take up the job with the UK Antarctica Heritage Trust for four months after beating 90 other applicants for the post.
It was advertised with the question: "Are you happy not to shower for up to a month, live in close proximity to three people and 2,000 smelly penguins for five months?"
The St Andrews University graduate will be one of four staff members manning the office in Port Lockroy, part of the British Antarctica Territory, where her main customers will be cruise ship passengers.
She said: "I did a project in primary seven about Antarctica and got really interested in it and ever since then it's been on my radar as I place I wanted to go to. I'll be living on an island the size of a football pitch."
Staff hand-frank 70,000 postcards and letters all over the world from the Penguin Post Office. Ms Kincaid will fly to Argentina in November. From there she will sail a five-day journey to Port Lockroy in Antarctica.
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