Every season, we publish pictures from Antarctica and we now have quite an archive available. You can follow the life of the Princess Elisabeth Station from its debuts in Brussels until now.
We were proud to welcome Their Royal Highnesses, Prince Philippe, and his daughter Princess Elisabeth of Belgium to the “Inside the Station” exhibition at Tour & Taxis, Brussels recently. The station was named in honour of Her ...
Here's a set of pictures of the team of SAMBA scientists working at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica, who recently discovered a meteorite weighing 18kg embedded in the East Antarctic ice sheet, the largest such meteorite found in the region since 1988.
Some of the vehicles in use at Princess Elisabeth are getting on years - and this means more maintenance work. Also, as Princess Elisabeth Antarctica is a living, working prototype for intelligence energy use, companies asks test equipment under extreme ...
During the last couple of weeks, we helped Konrad Steffen of Switzerland's WSL install two Automatic Weather Stations near Princess Elisabeth Antarctica. One near the airstrip to take measurements for the DROMLAN air network, and a second on the ...
Sir Ranulph Fiennes and the "Coldest Journey" Expedition arrived at Crown Bay aboard the S.A. Agulhas, where the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica team gave them a hand with the unloading of the equipment they will use to attempt the first ...
While the main part of the station is perched on rock, Princess Elisabeth Antarctica's entrance hall is built directly on the icecap. Because the movement of the ice was causing pressure on the entrance hall, pulling it away from the ...
Along with scientific investigation and encountering new emperor penguin colonies, the short four-month season at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica is jam-packed with challenging logistics and ground-breaking developments. The International Polar Foundation's team makes sure that scientific projects are carried out sucessfully ...
When the 9,000-strong emperor penguin colony on Antarctica’s Princess Ragnhild Coast received its first ever human visitors in December 2012, it was three team members from the polar research station Princess Elisabeth Antarctica: expedition leader Alain Hubert, station ...
Photographs just in from Antarctica - our field team has journeyed 254km away from Princess Elisabeth Antarctica, for the IceCon and Be:Wise projects, both of which are investigating the movement of Antarctica's ice cap - ...
The Princess Elisabeth Antarctica team prepare for a two week expedition to the Antarctic coast, for the IceCon and Be:Wise scientific projects. Reinhard Drews, who is in charge of Be:Wise, has been interviewed here, while Alain Hubert has ...