From Crown Bay Back to Utsteinen
This picture gallery will bring you to Crown Bay to discover the Ivan Papanin when it dropped anchor on the sea ice, then back to Utsteinen to discover more base camp scenes.
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The Russian ice-class cargo dropped ancor on the sea ice in Crown Bay.
© International Polar Foundation / René Robert
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Alain Hubert is happy to greet his collaborators on the ship.
© International Polar Foundation / René Robert
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Penguins are rather common along the coast at this time of the year.
© International Polar Foundation / René Robert
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Disembarkment of the 120 containers began immediately.
© International Polar Foundation / René Robert
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The tractors hauled the 120 containers up the snow ramp to safety on the ice shelf.
© International Polar Foundation / René Robert
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View of the garages which are just about finished. The only thing left to do, as shown on the picture, is to attach the doors.
© International Polar Foundation / René Robert
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For 45 minutes, the ridge is in the shaddow of Utsteinen!
© International Polar Foundation / Stéphane Dubois
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Drilling up on the ridge can be a very dusty business... The workmen get off work looking like dustmen!
© International Polar Foundation / Gaëlle Hubert
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Mounting the sixth wind turbine on the ridge.
© International Polar Foundation / Fons Sevranckx
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The bread making machine can hold 21 litres of ingredients!
© International Polar Foundation / Daniel Mercier
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In the evenings, the expedition members are served a balanced meal composed of vegetables, meat/fish and potatoes/rice/noodles.
© International Polar Foundation / Gaëlle Hubert
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...cheeze, butter, pie, truffes, chocolate mousse, fruit salad: this must be the dessert table...looks good to me!
© International Polar Foundation / Fons Sevranckx
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Any free time is devoted to washing up, writing, reading and resting.
© International Polar Foundation / Fons Sevranckx
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Wind shelter: another one of our accessories out on the camp site!
© International Polar Foundation / Gaëlle Hubert
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When the red arm is down, you can read "stop".
© International Polar Foundation / Gaëlle Hubert
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In case we get disorientated, these signboard will get us back on track.
© International Polar Foundation / Daniel Mercier
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Communication center at the Utsteinen base camp.
© International Polar Foundation / Daniel Mercier
