Scientific Research Closing Out the 2021-22 Season
The last teams of scienntists who are at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica for the 2021-22 austral summer research season have been hard at work setting up instruments and collecting…
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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Mass2Ant at Lokeryggen Ice Rise
During December 2021 and January 2022, a team of four sceintists from the galciology department of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles and one field guide from the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica spent several…
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Work and Leisure at PEA
Take a look into the lives of station staff both when they're hard at work and when they're enjoying their leisure time!
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Snow Petrel Research and Celebrating the Holidays
On 23 December, just a few days before Christmas, the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica welcomed two ornothologists studying snow petrels, a new doctor, and an additional plumber. Following the necessary field training,…
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Keeping up the Princess
Every year the team from the International Polar Foundation must do a lot to make sure that the world's first "zero emission" polar research station, the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica,…
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Scientists and Venturi Arrive
December 9th saw the arrival of the first teams of scientists conducting resaerch this season as well as a team from Monegasque electric vehicle company Venturi, which tested for the…
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First Month at PEA during 2021-22 Season
In this photo gallery we present a number of photos from the first month that the 2021-22 BELARE team spent at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica.
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Photos From Training Weekend in Chamonix 2021
During the weekend of September 24th to 26th, the BELARE team went to Chamonix, France to undergo some field training and get ot know their colleagues taking part in the…
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Dog’s Head Unloading Site Knocked Away by Iceberg from Amery Ice Shelf
In May and early June 2021, iceberg D28, which calved off from the Amery Ice Shelf in September 2019, collided with the Dog's Head formation on the King Baudouin Ice…
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Preparations for Departure
The BELARE team has bene very busy preparing the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica for overwintering while they pack up for the trip home. The station's solar panels have been covered…