Works at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station (Continued)
Since the new year, the BELARE team has been putting the finishing touches on the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica's new annexes. Now that the new annexes have been hooked…
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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Armin Sigmund Condutcs Fieldwork for the EPFL-CRYOS “From Clouds to Ground” Project
During the 2020-2021 season, Armin Sigmund, a PhD student from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) CRYOS Lab, contucted fieldwork for the From Clouds to Ground: Snow…
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Christmas and New Year’s at PEA
Christmas and New Year's celebrations were more subdued than in previous years with fewer people at the station this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, it didn'…
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Works at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station
Ever since their arrival in late November, the BELARE team has been hard at work on a number of maintenance projects around the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station. This gallery gives…
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First Weeks of 2020-2021 Season
The 2020-2021 BELARE season is off to a good start, despite the added logistical challenge this year of dealing with the COVID-19 situation. The team - consisting of Expedition Leader…
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Encountering Wildlife at the Coast of Antarctica
During scientific research expeditions and traverses to pick up supplies brought by cargo ship to the coast of East Antarctica, the possibility of encountering Antarctic wildlife is pretty high. Here…
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Antarctica’s Stunning Landscapes
While searching for a suitable site on the coast of the Dornning Maud Land in East Antarctica to unload materials and supplies from cargo ships, BELARE Team Leader Alain Hubert…
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Traverses Collect Cargo Brought by Ship
During the season 2019/2020, three heavily-loaded traverses were organised to transport cargo delivered by ship to the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica (PEA) Research Station. The more than 200 km journey between…
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Scenes from IPF’s Skype Classes from the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica
During the 2019-2020 austral summer research season in Antarctica, the International Polar Foundation has organised a number of Skype classes with school children from around Europe. Since the Princess…
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Snapshots of Scientific Research at the Princess Elisabeth Antartica
The scientific teams from the BioFe, MICROBIAN, and BELAM projects, as well as researchers from the Japanese National Institute for Polar Research (NIPR) are conducting research during the 2019-2020 season.…