Team Change at PEA
Better weather returned to Utsteinen, allowing the Basler DC-3 to land, bringing new team members to the station. Among the new faces are scientists and a few IPF staff members. Not long after their arrival, the newcomers were briefed and the expeditions for the coming weeks were prepared; the second part of the season now begins.
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PEA team getting ready to offload the Basler DC-3 at Utsteinen airstrip
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After four days in Cape Town, a team of 9 Germans and 8 IPF staff members has just landed in Utsteinen
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The IPF team discusses the technical program and the support to be provided to the scientists
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First briefing with the BGR team on the scientific program to be carried out in the coming 6 weeks
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Meeting in the doctor's office to discuss the helicopter rescue scenarios
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David Rigotti, our cook, will be very busy cooking for the station's 25 inhabitants
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Preparing turkey is an art, even more so in Antarctica
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After the meetings, the team enjoys lunch
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The newcomers settle in around a nice meal
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One of the German scientists testing one of the emergency exits of the Princess Elisabeth Station
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Blue ice can be found everywhere in Antarctica because of the strong winds
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The Yukotori Nunatak, where snow petrels gather to breed in the summer
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Expedition Leader Alain Hubert in front of Yukotori Nunatak
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Bamboo poles mark out a safe route for the team when heading into the field
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North of Smalegga, where the Belgians kept a depot in 1959-60, almost everything is intact
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The team takes advantage of the nice weather to scout the area on ski-doos
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This windscoop was carved out by the wind, and the heat of the rocks makes for a flat frozen lake
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We are hardly visible in the vastness of these landscapes
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Base Commander Nighat Amin at the geodetic landmark the Japanese put in place in 1989
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The geodetic station the JARE 30 expedition placed south of Vikinhhogda
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The inscription recounts the arrival of the Japanese at Vikinhhogda, 23 years ago
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Nighat Amin at the point where Antarctica was once joined to the southern part of Africa
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Motoyoshi San (NIPR) and two aviation inspectors visiting Princess Elisabeth Antarctica
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Johan Berte and Erik Verhagen from IPF explain the functioning of PEA's DPMS to Japanese officials
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