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,…
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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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…
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Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML)
During the BELARE 2008-09 expedition, Henri Robert, Alain De Broyer and Antoine Joris boarded the Ivan Papanin ship on its way to Breid Bay (200 km away from the Princess Elisabeth…
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Princess Elisabeth Station: Perspectives and Clichés
The Princess Elisabeth Station has been hibernating in Antarctica since the beginning of the polar winter. Here are a few pictures of the station that were taken during the summer…
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Wim Tellier in Antarctica
Protect 7-7 is a unique art exhibit which was held on the 7th continent. Wim Tellier, the author, wanted to find a place everyone would recognize to be Antarctica where…
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Water recycling and distribution inside the station
Water distribution at the Station is managed very carefully. It is distributed and managed frugally, and it is also reused after treatment. 100% of used water is recycled at the station, 75%…
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Interior Design of the Station
After having built the station and integrated its core systems, it was time to work on its interior design! It is one thing to build a solid base for scientific…
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Into the Polar Night
Come the month of March, the Antarctic daylight gradually fades into the deep darkness of winter. The station will have to live up to some fearcefull winds and extremely low…