Relay Antenna On Utsteinen Summit
The team installed a new relay antenna on Utsteinen Summit, requiring four climbs from each member in a single day. Since they were working in a biting cold, the installation…
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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First Traverse to the Coast
A first team has driven to the coast with members of JARE 51 to do some reconnaisance and prepare the offloading area at Crown Bay.
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A Sunday out
It has been a tough week, and the team, althoug a little tired, took out the ski-doos to go explore the "dry valleys". After this very unique experience, all of…
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JARE 51 at their base camp
With Alain Hubert's expert guidance, the members of the JARE 51 expedition are now at the place where they their base camp will be for three weeks.
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Works in Progress
After the snow had piled up everywhere and wrapped the station in a white blanket, the sun finally came back. The drilling for the anchoring of the satellite antenna can…
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More Provisions Have Arrived!
The Basler has come to resupply the Belgian and Japanese expeditions; relations between the neighbouring expeditions are warm and friendly. The weather has been getting worse...but no worries. Everybody…
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The new base camp is ready!
At the time when snow petrels are returning to their nesting sites at Utsteinen, the team faces its first bad weather of the season. The new base camp is ready,…
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Presentation of this year’s team
In this second picture gallery, we are glad to show you the people who make up the first team at Utsteinen.
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The first tasks of the season
At Utsteinen, the station has been subjected to the harsh Antarctic winter on her own. When the team arrives on November 11th 2009, they can see there will be a lot…
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HYDRANT-project in Utsteinen
HYDRANT (HYDRologic system of ANTarctica) is a project designed by Prof. Nicole van Lipzig from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL).The project aims to investigate the atmospheric part of the…