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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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!
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…
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…
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…
This picture gallery introduces the scientific work carried out by the glaciologists and lead by Professor Frank Pattyn at the coast.
Discover who is part of the BELARE 2008-2009 expedition to Antarctica. More people will be added as they arrive on site at Utsteinen.
This picture gallery depicts the very first activities which were undergone on site when the first team arrived at Utsteinen on November 11th. The second team has now also arrived…