The final rush before departing for the coast
A big convoy will be leaving the station on wednesday the 26th of November. The whole ICECON team are going to the coast, along with InBev-Baillet Latour Fellowship laureate Jan…
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.
A big convoy will be leaving the station on wednesday the 26th of November. The whole ICECON team are going to the coast, along with InBev-Baillet Latour Fellowship laureate Jan…
Scientists intend to colelct a lot of data during the season, but also install automatic instruments that will continue to send data after they have left Antarctica. All these instruments…
Crevasses are one of the many dangers of Antarctica. At the beginning of every season, field guides and the doctor organise a training session for everybody. They need to know…
After arriving at Princess Elisabeth to start a new season, which is always a very special moment, the team began the 10th BELARE season with the usual tasks: clearing the…
One of the last jobs of this 2013-2014 season at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica was to install a high-frequency antenna at the request of the Dronning Maud Lan Air Network (DROMLAN)…
As the suns sinks lower over the horizon and Antarctica's austral summer comes to a close, the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica team winds down the 2013-14 season.…
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…
Each season, a ship laden with building materials and supplies departs from Belgium, and makes the long voyage to the coast of Antarctica, 200km away from Princess Elisabeth polar research…
Alain and the Princess Elisabeth team continue to provide logistical support to Denis Lombardi as the sets up seismometers across the Sør Rondane Mountains as part of the…
The adventure continues as a field team from the Princess Elisabeth station helps Denis Lombardi from the Royal Observatory of Belgium install a transect of seismometers across the western S…