The Mary Arctica and the Shirase at Crown Bay
On December 25th, 2009, the Shirase and the Mary Arctica arrived at Crown Bay. With a highly motivated team, the offloading was finished in less than 24 hours.
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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New Team Members Settling in at Base Camp
On the morning of December 17th, a team members arrived at Utsteinen. After the airplane was unloaded, everybody settled into their tents and the base camp came back to life.
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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…
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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.