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…
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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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.…
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Installing the New Relay Antenna at Vesthaugen Nunatak
IPF engineers and technicians spent two days at Vesthaugen Nunatak, halfway between the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Research Station and the new Perseus Intercontinental Airstrip, installing a new wireless relay.…
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Constructing a New Garage
The garage on the north side of the station has been in sevice for ten years already, and over that peridod of time, the ice it has been standing on…
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Building Solar Power Units for Scientists
BELARE engineers Guus Luppens and Johan De Muylder have been hard at work building mobile solar-powered devices to provide scientists working in the field with renewable energy to power their…
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United for Climate-Human Chain’s Antarctic Extension
On the morning of Saturday 7 December, scientists from all over the world along with the operational team at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica from the International Polar Foundation formed a human…
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Scientists Begin Their Work during the 2019-2020 Season
Scientists from the CHASE, MASS2ANT and POPE projects arrived on the first ever intercontinental flight to Perseus Airstrip on 22 November, and have been working on their respsective research…
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Landing of First Intercontinental Flight at Perseus Airstrip
On 22 November 2019, the first intercontinental DROMLAN flight to Perseus Airstrip arrived from Cape Town around 18:00 UTC. This was a historic moment! Located just 60 km north of the Princess…