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.
Nicolas Bergeot from the Royal Observatory of Belgium talks about the interesting research on ice mass balance and Earth’s geomagnetic field he and his colleagues are carrying out…
Glaciologists from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Belgium talk about their research for the IceCon project, both in the field in Antarctica and in their laboratory back…
Jan Lenaerts, the 2014 Inbev-Baillet Latour laureate is really happy with the work he was able to accomplish during the 2014-2015 BELARE expedition and with the support he got from the…
While examining satellite sea ice data, Nighat Amin of the International Polar Foundation spotted that a 70 km2 iceberg had calved off the tip of the King Baudouin Ice Shelf in…
Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Germany, discovered a possible meteorite impact site during an aerial geological survey mission…
We followed the IceCon crew during their expedition in November and December. ULB glaciologists Jean Louis Tison and Frank Pattyn took the time to explain their research, what glaciology can…
After spending over a month in Antarctica, the first group of scientists and crew members left the Princess Elisabeth station and headed back to Belgium in time to spend Christmas…
For the third year in a row, Alain Hubert visited the emperor penguin colony he confirmed the existence of two years ago. While counting the adult penguins and chicks in…
Princess Elisabeth Antarctica, the first Zero Emission polar research station, was officially inaugurated five years ago, on the 15th of February 2009. In this video, we look back on those five…
Here's a video showing the discovery of a meteorite weighing 18kg on the ice sheet, by scientists working at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica. The discovery, which took place on January 28 2013,…