Weather Sets the Pace
Activities carry on at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica in difficult weather conditions. The team now prepares to offload the Mary Arctica at Crown Bay and to welcome the team of German…
Picture Galleries
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 origins in Brussels until the present.
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Storm Locks Team up
For the last few days, weather as been terrible as a storm hit us hard. The Princess Elisabeth team is thus concentrating on important tasks to be carried out inside…
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Encounters at the Coast
Seals and penguins are the iconic animals of Antarctica. When you're spending a few days at the coast for a scientific expedition, you are sure to meet some of them…
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Glaciology Campaign at the Coast
Follow Dr. Katherine Leonard and the team on their two weeks' campaign at the coast to take ocean depth measurements. Between December 2nd and 8th, the team led by Alain…
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Loading the Mary Arctica in Zeebrugge
On November 19th, the Mary Arctica left Zeebrugge for Antarctica with a stop in Cape Town. The ship was loaded by specialists from the Belgian Army with all the heavy…
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NIPR Geologists Reach Base Camp
With high spirits despite the hard work, the team has guided the geologists from the National Institute of Polar Research to their base camp at Austkampane, where they will stay…
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BELARE 2011-2012: A New Season Begins
The dawn of a new season is a bit of a ritual at Princess Elisabeth: removing accumulated snow, checking the air strip, running a few tests before restarting the systems…
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Glaciology in the Field
Collaboration with the Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l'Environnement (LGGE) for the Glacioclim project brought the team out into the field to take GPS coordinates, measurements and…
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Polar Research on its Way to Success
As the 2010-2011 scientific season comes to an end in Antarctica, scientists at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica (PEA) are celebrating some successes. Follow the scientists from the BELDIVA, HYDRANT, BELATMOS,…
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Reconnaissance expedition in the Sør Rondanes
The field guides Jacques Richon and Alain Hubert, accompanied by the photographer René Robert embarked on a three-day reconnaissance expedition in a vast unexplored region, some 150 kilometres from the …