Back to Antarctica 2022 Season Blog

Port Lockroy team members Kit Adams and Lucy Dorman, along with Conservation Carpenter Tank Adams, are finally travelling to Port Lockroy as we approach almost two years away from Antarctica. They will carry out essential assessments and repairs to our sites as well as lay a power cable to connect Bransfield House to the solar array installed on the Nissen Hut. The team will also install a new weather station funded by our Big Give campaign and get to work on the penguin survey. While Penguin Post Office isn't reopening in its usual capacity for now, Kit and Lucy will be handling any post that arrives at Port Lockroy. Follow their journey below.

Back to Antarctica 2022 Season Blog

Port Lockroy team members Kit Adams and Lucy Dorman, along with Conservation Carpenter Tank Adams, are finally travelling to Port Lockroy as we approach almost two years away from Antarctica. They will carry out essential assessments and repairs to our sites as well as lay a power cable to connect Bransfield House to the solar array installed on the Nissen Hut. The team will also install a new weather station funded by our Big Give campaign and get to work on the penguin survey. While Penguin Post Office isn't reopening in its usual capacity for now, Kit and Lucy will be handling any post that arrives at Port Lockroy. Follow their journey below.

2022: Blog | Stamp issues

04/02/2022

Pictured: Kit enjoying some quality time with his stamps

Few people are fortunate enough to come to Port Lockroy and fewer again get the opportunity to return. To return to Bransfield House and open the iconic post box is a very special moment. Having returned to civilisation and spoken to people who have received mail from the Penguin Post Office it makes it all the more special that I can once again reprise the role to help spread that little bit of joy.

While working at Port Lockroy and particularly in the role of postmaster you develop, sometime inadvertently, a real interest and excitement for stamps. It sounds strange but when it becomes part of your daily life it does happen. From seeing the stamps that arrive to us from all around the world (literally everywhere) and reading about the original stamps used during Operation Tabarin, from the Falkland Islands which required over printing, to the more modern issues. One such modern issue has particular interest to one of the team this year - Base Leader Lucy. Not only has a photograph she took been used to make a stamp, she also features on one of the new issue stamps this year.  It’s a pretty big claim to be able to make, to be on a stamp. Am I jealous? No! Not that I would admit anyway, but she hasn’t sent a card into Space. I have.

Kit Adams, Port Lockroy General Assistant 2021 - 2022

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