{"id":802119,"date":"2026-10-14T08:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T08:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/802119\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T08:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T08:10:15","slug":"antarctica-county-down-woman-joins-team-to-complete-restoration-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/802119\/","title":{"rendered":"Antarctica: County Down woman joins team to complete restoration mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McCullough decided to apply for the position to &#8220;work at the UK&#8217;s most remote post office in Antarctica&#8221; after hearing about it on the news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the &#8220;more I read, the more I thought this is the most fantastic opportunity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;To work for a charity in the Antarctica is fantastic and we are supporting that link from the past to the present day, making sure the heritage is still there for future generations,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The crew will share a bunk room and withstand no running water or flushing toilets, while working in almost constant daylight and sub-zero conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The UKAHT said that chocolate, packet soup and mini-watercolour sets will make up much of the team&#8217;s entertainment during their five-month stay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I love chocolate so I made sure I sent some over. We will be there over my birthday and Christmas so I have a few presents also,&#8221; McCullough told BBC News NI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The team will also be sent to another base called Wordie House, which is the site of the only continuous record of the climate there since the 1940s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is still used to record climate changes today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McCullough decided to apply for the position to &#8220;work at the UK&#8217;s most remote post office in Antarctica&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-802119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}