A team of four women has been assigned to manage the historic site Port Lockroy, on Goudier Island. It is the world’s most remote post office with difficult living conditions. The appointed women’s job roles also include counting the island’s penguins, handling letters, managing port and gift shop. 

Mangala Mani is the first ISRO female scientist to spend more than a year in Antarctica. She was the only woman in that zone as the Russian and Chinese earth stations also did not have any woman during the 2016-17 period.

It will be first time in the history that a team of all-women scientists will travel to Antarctica for scientific research. The first chapter of this expedition titled “Undisciplined: Leading Climate Solutions by Bridging the Sciences,” will start next year from December 2 to 21, 2016. The Homeward Bound program, an Australia-based group plans to […]