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Every year four lucky applicants get an opportunity to work at the most remote post office in the world - a job that includes penguin counting!

Typical workplace benefits are few and far between, with employees living together in close quarters with none of the trappings of modern life – including running water, flushing toilets, or mobile phone signal

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds is seeking a new field officer to spend 13 months on Gough Island in the South Atlantic Ocean, one of the remotest islands on Earth.

A British wildlife group is seeking a person willing to spend 13 months on one of the remotest islands in the world to study its bird population.

A British wildlife group is looking for someone to work on one of the remotest islands in the world for 13 months.

Reaching Gough Island, a British territory, involves a seven-day boat ride from South Africa.

One of the perks of working at the remote post: Penguin counting

Employees must live without running water, internet or cellphone service on British-owned Goudier Island for five months.

Kit Adams, from Newcastle, reflects on his time at the Penguin Post Office in the wilderness of Antarctica.