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 debuts in Brussels until now.
During the 2009-2010 Antarctic summer season, completing the final tests of all the active systems in the Princess Elisabeth Station was not the only feat of the BELARE team. Besides constructing a fuel platform, which will prevent the oil drums ...
On December 25th, 2009, the Shirase and the Mary Arctica arrived at Crown Bay. With a highly motivated team, the offloading was finished in less than 24 hours.
On the morning of December 17th, a team members arrived at Utsteinen. After the airplane was unloaded, everybody settled into their tents and the base camp came back to life.
The team installed a new relay antenna on Utsteinen Summit, requiring four climbs from each member in a single day. Since they were working in a biting cold, the installation took the team a full day to finish.
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 of 2008-09.
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% of which is after each treatment reused for showers, toilets ...
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 research in Antarctica; another to actually be able to live ...
The Princess Elisabeth Station, the only polar station built during the International Polar Year and the first "zero emission" station ever, was officially inaugurated on Sunday 15th February 2009. The station, which is now without a doubt a model of stations ...
Whether it's installing the solar pannels on the outside walls of the Princess Elisabeth Station, unloading the containers, or working setting up the interior of the station, everyone at Utsteinen is constantly working...
Outside the station, the BELARE team members have just finished an important job: the cabling of the windturbines.