- Picture Galleries in Building the station
Work Outside the Station
This gallery gives us a window into the building going on outside the station: Laying the foundations for the garage annex before it is constructed anddrilling to construct the foundations of the seismic station
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Good weather has returned at last.
© International Polar Foundation / René Robert
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First day of nice weather in a week... The carpenters (AKA "the youngsters")can get back to work outside! The building of the garage annex. A foundation in Antarctica: a layer of wood and a layer of snow!
© International Polar Foundation / René Robert
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Everyone has his way of shovelling; this is Julien's favourite: the Japanese Mini Bull backhoe.
© International Polar Foundation / René Robert
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The second Mini Bull backhoe in front of a UFO that has landed at Utsteinen!...
© International Polar Foundation / René Robert
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Olivier, short but strong... Happy to be in the sunny outdoors again...
© International Polar Foundation / René Robert
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After the shovelling and the digging, the foundations are laid.
© International Polar Foundation / René Robert
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The foundations. No concrete; a layer of wood, a layer of snow, and so on...
© International Polar Foundation / René Robert
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Drilling 20-metre hole for the foundations of the seismic station.
© International Polar Foundation / René Robert
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Drilling site on Utsteinen ridge
© International Polar Foundation / René Robert
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The garage hidden under the snow and the Prinoth tractor going at it...
© International Polar Foundation / René Robert
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Old and new sledges...
© International Polar Foundation / René Robert