The research outpost known as Base W sits on the edge of Antarctica, a manmade structure within an unforgiving environment. Nobody has been inside for decades, but that’s about to change. A crew is on their way to the facility, a place known to have once contained a post office. Aside from that, though, the team don’t know for sure what they’ll discover. But when they finally walk inside, they find that it’s all been frozen in time.
Nowadays, the British have a new post office at Port Lockroy, which sits on the continent’s northern tip. The four-person staff, apparently, has two main responsibilities. For one, they deliver what little mail comes and goes from Antarctica. And second, they also watch over the local colony of gentoo penguins – all 2,000 of them.
