April 2005Foreign Correspondent has travelled to most of the far-flung pockets of the world, from Iceland to Timbuktu -- but never before have we brought a story back from that great southern land, Antarctica. So this week, a report from the deep south.ABC "Catalyst" reporter Paul Willis travelled to Antarctica as a scientific adviser on a cruise ship.Along the way, amongst the penguins and the pack ice, Paul finds an outpost of the British Empire which remains happily, even defiantly frozen in time.Port Lockroy was once a British research station, but it was closed down in the 1960's. Since then, it has been restored as a living museum to early Antarctic exploration, and it's also home to the only working Post Office on the Antarctic Peninsula.

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