Princess Elisabeth Antarctica

Pictures and Videos

We hope that these videos and picture galleries will give you a feeling of what it is like to live and work in Antarctica. You will also find a lot of material related to the construction of the station.

Latest Picture Galleries

Belgo-Japanese SAMBA meteorite team members examining an 18kg meteorite found during a field trip on the Nansen Ice Field, 140km south of Princess Elisabeth Antarctica, during the BELARE 2012-2013 expedition. - International Polar Foundation/Vinciane Debaille

- 21 Pictures

Finding Meteorites in Antarctica

Here's a set of pictures of the team of SAMBA scientists working at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica, who recently discovered a ...

View of our vehicles and containers from the west platform of the station - International Polar Foundation / Alain Hubert

- 15 Pictures

Maintenance Work & Solar Panels

Some of the vehicles in use at Princess Elisabeth are getting on years - and this means more maintenance work. ...

Konrad Steffen from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) and Alain Hubert drilling to install a new weather station near the airstrip. - International Polar Foundation / Alain Hubert

- 12 Pictures

Automatic Weather Station & Gravimetry Measurements

During the last couple of weeks, we helped Konrad Steffen of Switzerland's WSL install two Automatic Weather Stations near ...

Gallery archives

Latest Videos

Discovering the 18kg Antarctic Meteorite

Here's a video showing the discovery of a meteorite weighing 18kg on the ice sheet, by scientists working at ...

Emperor penguin colony discovered

Three members of the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica team have the honour of being the first humans to have visited and ...

Video archives