A British wild animals team is looking for someone to work on among the remotest islands on the planet for 13 months.
Gough Island, a British area in the southerly Atlantic Sea, has no long-term populace.
It's about 1,500 miles (2,400km) from the African landmass - and, with no flight terminal, getting to Gough involves a seven-day watercraft trip from Southern Africa.
It's a trip currently finished by Rebekah A good reputation and Lucy Dorman, that presently work on Gough.
They are amongst the 7 full-time workers - and 8 million birds - that call Gough home.
Both help the Imperial Culture for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). Before transferring to Gough, Lucy operated in Antarctica while Rebekah helped the RSPB in Scotland.
Rebekah's year on the island will finish in September, so the RSPB is looking for a brand-new area policeman, with a income of in between £25,000 and £27,000.
The job involves "regular lengthy days" monitoring seabird species, and requires prospects to adjust well to residing in a "challenging and remote sub-Antarctic environment".
Prospects should also have "a scientific research level or equivalent experience in an appropriate topic", as well as "wild bird/pet handling and monitoring experience in the area".
And Rebekah and Lucy caution potential workers they'll need to take on difficult weather - and tolerate no fresh food for a year.
"I think Bekah and I, being British, thought we were used to rainfall," Lucy says. "But there is a great deal of rainfall."
She includes: "We are on the brink of the barking forties, we are simply a small shake in the center of the southern Atlantic, so we do have some pretty severe weather."
The barking forties explains the location in between the latitudes 40 and 50 southern of the equator - well-known for solid winds.
So what do you consume when you are greater than a thousand miles from the nearest nation? Obtain ready for dishes to find packaged - or icy.
"It was definitely one point they stressed for us before we came - that for many individuals, the lack of food and the lack of fresh food is considerable," Lucy says.
"The main point I certainly miss out on is much like a crispy carrot, or having the ability to attack right into a nice apple. Simply some crunch, but aside from that - I do not seem like I'm truly missing out on a lot."
Fresh vegetables and fruit position too a lot of a biosecurity risk of germinating and spreading out throughout the island. Rather, food is mainly sourced from 2 walk-in freezers, equipped yearly.
"One's filled with icy veggies and the other's basically filled with icy meat and after that we've obtained great deals of tinned icy fruit and veg," Rebekah says.
"They give us a year's well worth of provide of food throughout that two-week requisition time, and we live off it for the remainder of the year."
The requisition time describes the duration yearly, in September, when some workers on Gough load up and return home, and new employees take control of.
And when it comes to social seclusion?
"In a strange kind of way I type of seem like I'm more connected to my family and friends here compared to I probably was when I developed in Scotland," says Rebekah.
Both say with internet on the base, remaining in contact is as easy as ever - and the support of the small group offsets challenging minutes.
"It is an extremely nice community here so we're able to share tales, and gain from each various other and support each various other when you can't go to a wedding event or a funeral service," includes Rebekah.
As component of the RSPB Worldwide Preservation Scientific research Group, Lucy and Rebekah track the movements of various threatened birds, such as the Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross, Atlantic petrel and MacGillivray's prion.
Throughout the day, they take on the weather and
going
right into the area - usually equipped with water resistant coats and trousers, and wellington boots - to locate the birds.
They are gathering information on chicks on the island, and their fight versus mice, an intrusive species, that have been consuming them.
"They [the mice] did begin to consume the seabirds," Lucy says. "They do not have any killers, the mice on the island, therefore they were having actually a huge impact, especially on the small chicks."
In 2017-18 the mice became so harmful to chicks that simply 21% of Tristan albatross chicks made it through to fledge. In one seriously threatened petrel species that nests in burrows - the MacGillivray's prion - not a solitary chick made it through.
The RSPB suspects the mice were presented into Gough by seafarers in the 19th Century, and the team is functioning to eliminate them.
The eradication has significantly decreased the populace - but the RSPB has not yet had the ability to totally free the island of mice.
So, for those interested in a year on Gough - birds, mice, icy food, and spectacular remoteness consisted of - the due date to use is completion of Sunday.
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