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Radio Scotland,12 mins

Amy Kincaid | Extended Interview

Shereen

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24 year old Amy Kincaid, from Oban, beat applicants from all over the world to take charge of the world’s most southerly post office, on a remote island in Antarctica. Sharing a bedroom with the three other humans on the penguin-inhabited island of Port Lockroy. She tells Shereen how she learned to live a life of isolation, with none of the trappings of the modern world.

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