Utsteinen Nunatak Windscoop Melting
During the height of summer at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica, temperatures can sometimes climb above freezing, which is warm enough to melt ice in the nearby Utsteinen Nunatak windscoop!

Through these small videos, we hope to give you a taste of what it is like to work and live at the Princess Elisabeth Station. We tried to cover a broad range of topics and uploaded parts of our archives to do so. We hope you'll like it.
During the height of summer at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica, temperatures can sometimes climb above freezing, which is warm enough to melt ice in the nearby Utsteinen Nunatak windscoop!
This week two members of our team traveled to the coast when they just so happened to encounter a pod of Arnoux's beaked whales swimming and feeding amongst the…
This videos is a timelapse of the opening days of the 2024-25 season. We can see how snow is being cleared from around the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica!
Every season we fly the flags of the nations that are represented by people at the station as an omen to the international collaboration and efforts required to work in…
Tim took some drone footage of Adelie penguins at the Princess Ragnhild coast while they were waiting for the ship to arrive.
A week of bad weather arrived at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica at the beginning of December.
The weather during the first part of the 2023-24 season has been quite snowy and windy.
A skycam attached to the roof of the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica catpures the movement of the sun over five days.
A bad storm hit Utsteinen last weekend on Saturday. This video provides a quick glimpse of what a storm in Antarctica looks and feels like.
Our electrical engineer, Karel Moerman, brought a drone with him to Antarctica this year. We've taken aerial images of the station from an ultra light aircraft before, but this…