Returning conservation carpenter Jo Oliver reflects on last season and looks ahead to another summer restoring historic Port Lockroy. After…
Read moreBuilding on experience: Jo Oliver returns to Port Lockroy
Category: Port Lockroy
Our diverse 2026 Antarctic team heads south for UKAHT’s biggest conservation season yet, as major works begin to protect historic…
Read moreMeet our 2026 Antarctic team
In 1921, Ernest ‘The Boss’ Shackleton hired two scouts to join his final expedition. One of them – James Marr…
Read moreThe Boss and the Scout
As we prepare for the second year of our three-year conservation programme at Port Lockroy, our Head of Buildings and…
Read moreStrength beneath the surface: our three-year mission to protect Port Lockroy
Discover some of the world’s most unusual post offices, from a submerged outpost in the Pacific to mail delivered by…
Read morePost-modern: the world’s most unusual post offices
A postcard travels from Antarctica’s Penguin Post Office to Ochopee, Florida – the tiny Everglades hut known as the world’s…
Read moreFrom the southernmost to the smallest: a postcard’s journey
From the world’s southernmost post office to one of the most festive addresses on Earth, a very special postcard has…
Read morePostmarked in Antarctica, delivered to Santa Claus
After three months living and working at Port Lockroy, wildlife monitor Pete Watson reflects on the partners whose support kept…
Read moreA huge thank you to our equipment and clothing partners
Wildlife monitor Pete Watson, with help from postmaster Rachel Wilkinson, crunches the numbers from another busy season at Port Lockroy,…
Read more128 days at Port Lockroy: the vital statistics
This season, your support helped protect one of Antarctica’s most remarkable historic sites. Here’s a recap of what we achieved….
Read morePort Lockroy conservation season recap 2025/26
