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An all-female team from Dundee in Scotland has travelled some 8,000 miles to South Georgia to help reopen the island's South Georgia Museum at Grytviken on time for the coming summer and cruise season.
The crow’s nest used by famed explorer Ernest Shackleton on his last Antarctic expedition has departed the museum in Athy, bound for South Georgia.
Sara-Jayne King catches up with the museum's curator Jayne Pierce to find out more.
To mark 100 years since the death of Sir Ernest Shackleton, South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory and the Falkland Islands, have joined together to release a series of stamps celebrating his life and achievements.
On a British island at the edge of the Antarctic is one of the most remote tourist spots in the world.