Tractor Engine Removal
Removing a broken engine from a Prinoth tractor as part of ongoing mechanical maintenance and equipment reliability checks.

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.
Removing a broken engine from a Prinoth tractor as part of ongoing mechanical maintenance and equipment reliability checks.
With all the snow from last winter cleared, the BELARE 2025–26 season is off to a strong start!
Enjoying the Antarctic landscape on the flight to the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station!
In January 2025 part of the IPF team climbed the antenna at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica to install instruments for the EPFL-CRYOS project.
On December 24th, the first weather balloon filled with hydrogen was launched from the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica research station. This milestone marks the firs time hydrogen produced at the station…
In late December, members of the BELARE team headed to the coast to prepare the site where members of the NISAR and PASPARTOUT projects will install instruments.
Here we see IPF engineer Mathilde Renard and IPF Founder and BELARE Team Leader Alain Hubert inaugurating the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica's new hydrogen production facility, which will be used…
Planes including the Alfred Wegener Institute's Polar 6 aircraft at the PEA Airfield getting ready to take off to conduct aerial surveys of the the ice margin at the coast…
Riding in a Toyota Hilux towards PEA after spending some time at Perseus Airfield to prepare for the arrival of scientists in a few days!
A member of our team works diligently to clear all the snow from in-front of the Princess Elisabeth station that had piled up over the winter months.