New Year’s Eve and Maintenance Operations
The Princess Elisabeth Station celebrated the new year with a nice dinner. While waiting for the ship to arrive at Crown Bay, the whole IPF team carries on with maintenance operations at Utsteinen.
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The team for the second part of the season: Happy New Year!
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Watching "Dinner for One", a tradition the German scientists brought with them.
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Utsteinen on the 31st: a magic light.
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Everyone gives a hand to prepare for New Year's Eve.
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Even with no fresh food available, David is capable of making us nice desserts: strawberry tiramisu!
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Everybody got a brand new pair of gloves for the work to be done in 2012.
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We can see where the ship is stuck in the sea ice with the material for the station and for the German geologists.
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Removing the snow from the solar panels before taking them out.
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At least we have a nice view while working.
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The snow blower helps, but a lot has to be done by hand, using a good, old shovel.
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Paying attention not to damage the panels.
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Starting to remove solar panels to replace them with more efficient ones.
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Crane used to lift the panels.
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Lunch break for our geologists at the bottom of a rock wall during a land survey.
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Kistof doing some maintenance work. He never rests!
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Working on the garage doors.
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Sunday we had very nice weather. Jacques Richon conducting an air reconnaissance with the ULM.
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