Completion of the Second Winter Park Hangar
Construction at the Winter Park reached a major milestone with the completion of the second wooden hangar. The new structure provides safe storage for scientific equipment and materials, reduces reliance…
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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Installing a New AWS at Vesthaugen Nunatak
The team installed a new basic automatic weather station on Vesthaugen Nunatak. Mounted on solid rock and rising eight metres high, the station focuses on measuring wind conditions and required…
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Upgrading the Solar Thermal System
This week, the team replaced the original solar thermal panels that have been heating water at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station since 2009. The new panels, shipped to Antarctica for this season,…
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Keeping the Station Running Smoothly
Routine maintenance is essential to keep Princess Elisabeth Antarctica operating safely and efficiently in one of the world’s harshest environments. From vehicle checks and snow removal to water…
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Leveling Up
Raising and leveling the station’s annexes is a key task each season as the glacier beneath moves steadily toward the coast. Using newly tested hydraulic jack systems, the…
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A Sustainable Boost - Hydrogen Production at PEA
On December 24th, 2024, the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station celebrated the inauguration of its new hydrogen production facilities, a major milestone for sustainable operations in Antarctica. Developed by engineers Mathilde Renard…
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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…
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Building a new geomagnetic observatory
One of the projects for this season is to build a new geomagnetic observatory for the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium. The team had to build it without using any…
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Five years at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica
To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the inauguration of Princess Elisabeth Antarctica, we look back on five years of endevour through pictures. Starting with the construction of Princess…
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Rebuilding the Entrance Hall at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica
While the main part of the station is perched on rock, Princess Elisabeth Antarctica's entrance hall is built directly on the icecap. Because the movement of the ice was causing…