Solar panels
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...
Princess Elisabeth Antarctica
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 debuts in Brussels until now.
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Cabling of Wind Turbines
Outside the station, the BELARE team members have just finished an important job: the cabling of the windturbines.
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Station Perspectives
Utsteinen is a white paradise and the Princess Elisabeth Station offers a marvelous view out onto the panorama which holds all of Antarctica's beauty. These pictures allow you to see for yourselves the beauty of the surroundings, a mineral world ...
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Working on the Technical Core of the Station
Most of the containers have now left Crown Bay and reached Utsteinen. All of the heavy equipment has been hauled into the station and the BELARE team members are working away on the assembly and integration of its various components.
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Return of the first traverse and life at base camp
A first convoy has returned from the coast with new building material and equipment to proceed with the interior integration of the Station's systems. The base camp in Utsteinen is full of activity in and around the Station.
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Progress Inside the Station
This picture gallery tours the inside of the station (for those of you who are not familiar with it yet) and shows how fast the work inside the station has been coming along (December 2008).
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Work Outside the Station
This gallery gives us a window into the building going on outside the station: Laying the foundations for the garage annex before it is constructed anddrilling to construct the foundations of the seismic station
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What’s Happening Inside the Station?
This gallery shows the work done during the month of December, from sanding the wooden beams to applying epoxy with Jacques, François, Ilyr and the only doctor in the Southern Hemisphere who has a knitted cap with beaver ...
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Arrival and First Activities
This picture gallery depicts the very first activities which were undergone on site when the first team arrived at Utsteinen on November 11th. The second team has now also arrived at the station. The sun is shining but it is ...
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First Technical Sub-units in Linkebeek
A visit to the testing laboratories of Laborelec in Linkebeek allowed the IPF team to bring back an exciting first picture gallery of the station's core mock-up and technical units currently on site.