US EditionKing’s special post box delivery for scientists in the Antarctic
The King gifted a genuine Royal Mail post box to Rothera Station to replace a handmade one, supporting 100 summer staff and boosting morale during extreme Antarctic conditions.
- This year scientists at Rothera received a real red Royal Mail lamppost box bearing the King’s cypher, delivered aboard the RRS Sir David Attenborough as part of a post‑winter supply drop.
- Kirsten Shaw, station support assistant and head of the British Antarctic Territory Post Office at Rothera, wrote to the King seeking a replacement for a hand-painted replica and was awarded the Fuchs Medal in 2022.
- Mail from Rothera is routed via British Antarctic Survey transport to Stanley, Falkland Islands, then on an air bridge to RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, while a lamppost box will be installed in the Discovery Building, Rothera.
- For staff at Rothera the gift felt like `having a piece of home with us`, and David Gold called sending and receiving post `vital`, especially at Christmas.
- Rothera Research Station, the largest British Antarctic facility, hosts around 100 staff in summer and features Adelie penguins photographed near the new post box.
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People of science stationed in a British research facility isolated from Antarctica received a special Christmas gift: a new-night box of the British Royal Post, sent by Charles's staff, according to The Independent. Kirsten...
British scientists from Antarctica received a new royal mail box, sent by King Charles. The new red recipient arrived at Rothera's isolated research station right on time for sending Christmas correspondence. The box, which bears the King's monogram, was requested by Kirsten Shaw, coordinator of the British Antarctica postal office. [...]
When Kirsten Shaw wanted a new mailbox for staff at Britain's Rothera research station in Antarctica, she didn't order it online or resort to a makeshift solution. She wrote directly to King Charles III, The Guardian reports.
Special delivery for Antarctica - British Antarctic Survey
The staff at the UK’s Rothera Research Station in Antarctica have been gifted an iconic Royal Mail ‘lamp’ post box featuring the King Charles III cypher – just in time … The post Special delivery for Antarctica appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
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