Return of the first traverse and life at base camp
A first convoy has returned from the coast with new building material and equipment to proceed with the interior integration of the Station's systems. The base camp in Utsteinen is…
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 debuts in Brussels until now.
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Progress Inside the Station
This picture gallery tours the inside of the station (for those of you who are not familiar with it yet) and shows how fast the work inside the station has…
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Crown Bay: Unloading the Ivan Papanin ship
The Russian ice class cargo ship named Ivan Papanin reached its unloading site in Crown Bay on December 21st, 2008. Crown Bay lies roughly 190 km away from Utsteinen and the Princess…
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Work Outside the Station
This gallery gives us a window into the building going on outside the station: Laying the foundations for the garage annex before it is constructed anddrilling to construct the foundations…
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What’s Happening Inside the Station?
This gallery shows the work done during the month of December, from sanding the wooden beams to applying epoxy with Jacques, François, Ilyr and the only doctor in…
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Antarctic Birds
The Antarctic is also filled with birds of all kinds, notably penguins, skuas and petrels. Check out what the expedition photographer, René Robert, was able to catch on film…
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Seals at the Coast
A seal colony invited the reconnaissance team to stop for a break along the coast of Crown Bay. Here are a few snapshots from their get-together!
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Base Camp at Utsteinen
Focus on the base camp at Utsteinen, in the Kingdom of the Princess Elisabeth Station. When the expedition members aren't out working around the station (and that's pretty rare), base…
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Covered in Snow and Digging Ourselves Out
After the first team of the BELARE 2008-09 expedition arrived at Utsteinen, they got right down to clearing away the snow that had piled up during the winter. Katabatic winds…
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Coastal Reconnaissance
Alain Hubert, René Robert, Kristof Soete and René Wagemans were part of the coastal reconnaissance team which left for Breid Bay on November 28th and returned to the…