Princess Elisabeth Station:Utsteinen, Antarctica
Follow a great Belgian adventure: building the Princess Elisabeth station in Antarctica
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An Interview with Didier Goetghebeur
14 May 2008
Didier Goetghebeur is the director of a non-profit organisation (ICEDD) specialised in sustainable development and dedicated to promoting and realising projects that use energy, land and materials more sustainably. During BELARE 2007-08, Didier was in charge of the traverse teams, which over more than two months brought the components of the station from the offloading point at Crown Bay almost 200 km inland to Utsteinen.
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The BELARE expeditions - a dossier for teachers and pupils in class
9 May 2008
Now that the BELARE 2007-2008 expedition is still fresh in our mind, the International Polar Foundation has taken the opportunity to publish a new pedagogical dossier: 'BELARE: the station was not built in a day!'
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