Taking pictures and filming on the ice

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.

  • First Drill Tests for the BELISSIMA Team

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    First Drill Tests for the BELISSIMA Team

    Upon their arrival at the Princess Elisabeth Station at Utsteinen, the members of the BELISSIMA team, headed by Frank Pattyn (ULB) and Jean-Louis Tison (ULB), successfully tested their new drilling…

  • Glaciology at the station: LGGE09

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    Glaciology at the station: LGGE09

    Among the international science collaborations at the Princess Elisabeth Station, we find the one with the Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l'Environnement (LGGE) in the field of …

  • JARE 51 Meteorite Hunting Mission

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    JARE 51 Meteorite Hunting Mission

    The JARE 51 Mission to collect meteorites in the Eastern Sør Rondane Mountains was a success. The team, which spent the better part of four weeks in the field,…

  • Scientists at Work

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    Scientists at Work

    Just like Antarctica, the Princess Elisabeth Station is dedicated to science. This year, the station welcomes Irina Gorodetskaya (KULeuven), Steve Roberts (British Antarctic Survey) & Elie Verleyen (UGent) for DELAQUA,…

  • JARE 51 at their base camp

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    JARE 51 at their base camp

    With Alain Hubert's expert guidance, the members of the JARE 51 expedition are now at the place where they their base camp will be for three weeks.

  • HYDRANT-project in Utsteinen

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    HYDRANT-project in Utsteinen

    HYDRANT (HYDRologic system of ANTarctica) is a project designed by Prof. Nicole van Lipzig from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL).The project aims to investigate the atmospheric part of the…

  • Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML)

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    Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML)

    During the BELARE 2008-09 expedition, Henri Robert, Alain De Broyer and Antoine Joris boarded the Ivan Papanin ship on its way to Breid Bay (200 km away from the Princess Elisabeth…

  • Antarctic Birds

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    Antarctic Birds

    The Antarctic is also filled with birds of all kinds, notably penguins, skuas and petrels. Check out what the expedition photographer, René Robert, was able to catch on film…