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大多数邮递员骑车或开车送信，但在南极洲，邮件得等过路的船。据 BBC 10 月 25 日报道，来自英格兰布里斯托尔的乔治·克拉克（George Clarke）每年有五个月在洛克罗伊港（Port Lockroy）经营世界最南端的邮局，这次将随六人团队开始第三个工作季。文章先交代这处地方的背景：古迪尔岛上生活着约 1000 只企鹅，20 世纪 40 年代因是捕鲸船的安全停靠点而被英国选中，1962 年前一直是科研基地，如今由英国南极遗产信托负责保护。接着说明邮局如何运作：没有运邮车，团队分拣、装袋、称重后，通过电子邮件或无线电请北上的船只帮忙带走明信片。随后介绍克拉克的其他职责，以及团队本季修缮布兰斯菲尔德屋的具体计划，再简述前往南极约一周的路程。最后用几位队员的原话回答“为什么有人想做这份工作”。阅读时可留意 because、but、after、so that 如何串起背景、过程与目的，以及文章如何用具体细节（数字、步骤、原话）代替空泛的评价。

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Most postal workers carry letters by van or by bike. George Clarke’s job is very different. For five months of the year, he leaves his partner and friends in Bristol, England, to run the world’s most southerly post office, at Port Lockroy in Antarctica. As the BBC reported on 25 October, he was due to set off on Monday with a team of six for his third season there.

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大多数邮递员骑车或开车送信，乔治·克拉克的工作却大不相同。每年有五个月，他离开在英格兰布里斯托尔的伴侣和朋友，去南极洲洛克罗伊港（Port Lockroy）经营世界最南端的邮局。据 BBC 10 月 25 日报道，他将于周一随一支六人团队出发，开始在那里的第三个工作季。

Port Lockroy is on Goudier Island, a very small island that is also home to about 1,000 gentoo penguins. Britain chose the site in the 1940s because early whaling ships knew it as a safe place to stop. The bones of whales killed long ago for their oil still lie along part of the shore. The base was used for British science research until 1962. Today a charity, the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust, looks after it.

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洛克罗伊港位于古迪尔岛（Goudier Island），这座很小的岛上还生活着约 1000 只巴布亚企鹅。英国在 20 世纪 40 年代选中这里，因为早期的捕鲸船知道这是一个可以安全停靠的地方。很久以前为取油而被捕杀的鲸鱼，其骨头至今仍散落在部分海岸上。这个基地一直用于英国的科学研究，直到 1962 年。如今由慈善机构英国南极遗产信托（UK Antarctic Heritage Trust）负责保护。

Clarke, who is also an artist, works there from late October to March, during the southern summer. His days are spent sorting postcards and processing letters. But there are no vans waiting to carry the mail away. After the team sorts, bags and weighs the cards, they check which ships are heading north toward the Falklands. “Then we get them on email or the radio and we say, ‘Hello, would you mind taking some postcards with you?’” he said.

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克拉克同时也是一名艺术家。他在南半球夏季，即从 10 月下旬到次年 3 月在那里工作。他每天整理明信片、处理信件。但那里没有等着把邮件运走的货车。团队把明信片分拣、装袋、称重之后，要查看哪些船正向北驶往福克兰群岛。“然后我们通过电子邮件或无线电联系他们，问：‘你好，能不能请你们帮忙带些明信片走？’”他说。

Running a post office for six people does not fill all of his time. Clarke is also the deputy base commander. He helps clean and repair the site and records wildlife for the British Antarctic Survey. This season the team will continue a three-year plan to repair Bransfield House, the island‘s largest building, which holds a museum, the post office and a shop. They will put new beams in the roof and 30 steel and timber supports in the floor so that it can stand up to rain and snow.

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为六个人经营一家邮局并不会占满他的全部时间。克拉克还是基地副指挥官。他帮忙清洁和维修这里的设施，并为英国南极调查局（British Antarctic Survey）记录野生动物情况。这个季度，团队将继续推进一项为期三年的计划，修缮岛上最大的建筑布兰斯菲尔德屋（Bransfield House），里面有一座博物馆、这家邮局和一间商店。他们将在屋顶装上新的横梁，并在地板下安装 30 根钢材和木材支撑，使建筑能够经受雨雪。

Getting there takes about a week. The team flies to Ushuaia in Argentina through Buenos Aires, then spends four or five days on a ship to the Antarctic Peninsula.

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前往那里大约需要一周。团队先经布宜诺斯艾利斯飞到阿根廷的乌斯怀亚，再乘船航行四五天抵达南极半岛。

Why do people want such a job? “The penguins are noisy and smelly. The people are fantastic,” Clarke said. Base commander Carole McCullough, who once served in the Royal Air Force, called Antarctica “the ultimate adventure“. Museum manager Alice Parr, who will also count penguins, first applied three years ago but was only chosen as a reserve. “I tried again—clearly persistence pays off!” she said.

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人们为什么想做这样一份工作？“企鹅又吵又臭。人们都很棒，”克拉克说。曾在英国皇家空军服役的基地指挥官卡罗尔·麦卡洛称南极洲是“终极冒险”。博物馆经理爱丽丝·帕尔还将负责统计企鹅数量。她三年前第一次申请时只被选为候补人员。“我又试了一次——显然坚持是有回报的！”她说。

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• BBC News · The penguins are noisy, the people fantastic - what it takes to be an Antarctic postmaster (25 Oct 2026)

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