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A Scottish woman has been selected to travel to the South Pole to take up one of the most remote jobs in the world. Mairi Hilton, a conservation biologist from Bo'ness, Falkirk, beat 6,000 applicants to live and work on Port Lockroy base on Goudier Island in Antarctica.

The base has served as a home for explorers, whalers, scientists and sailors for more than a century, reports the Scotsman. Ms Hilton, a former student at the University of Glasgow, will be employed as a wildlife monitor on the island for five months - spending five months without running water or a flushing toilet.

She will be on of an-all woman team selected by the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust who managed to land the highly-coveted roles.

Clare Ballantyne, Natalie Corbett and Lucy Bruzzone make up the foursome who were successful.Their only neighbours on the football-sized island will be a colony of Gentoo penguins, with one of her key roles to lead the count to help monitor and protect the flightless birds.Mairi said: “This will be my first time in Antarctica and I’m very excited to set eyes on the white continent.

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