Opening of the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station
With all the snow from last winter cleared, the BELARE 2025–26 season is off to a strong start!
Videos
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.
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On the way to Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station!
Enjoying the Antarctic landscape on the flight to the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station!
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Climbing Antenna at PEA for EPFL-CRYOS project
In January 2025 part of the IPF team climbed the antenna at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica to install instruments for the EPFL-CRYOS project.
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First Weather Balloon filled with Hydrogen Produced at PEA Launched
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…
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Leaving on a Traverse to the Coast
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.
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PEA Hydrogen Production Inauguration 24 Dec 2024
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…
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Planes Working on the RINGS Project Preparing to Take Off from PEA Airfield
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…
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BELARE Traverse November 2024
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!
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360 camera view of clearing winter snow from PEA
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.
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Wind Turbines Busy Producing Clean Energy
There can be strong winds at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica which is ideal for our renewable ideology. Almost all the energy produced at PEA either comes from these wind turbines…