Princess Elisabeth Antarctica

News from Antarctica

Interested in what's happening down at Princess Elisabeth? News from the field are posted here regularily to keep you updated about what is going on during the various seasons.

  • The Samba team: Takashi Mikouchi, Akira Yamaguchi, Christophe Berclaz, Yukihisa Akada, Naoya Imae, Vinciane Debaille, Nadia Van Roosbroek, Wendy Debouge, Geneviève Hublet, and Harry Zekollari (front) - International Polar Foundation

    in Science, Interviews

    Interview with Vinciane Debaille, Meteorite Hunter

    An international team of scientists working at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica recently discovered a meteorite weighing a massive 18kg embedded in the East Antarctic ice sheet, the largest  such meteorite found in the region since 1988. We talked to Vinciane Debaille, ...

  • Checking out the drilling equipment used by the Icecon scientific team at the Field Camp. - International Polar Foundation

    in Science

    Interview: Understanding Antarctica’s Ice

    Freshly returned from the Antarctic Winter, to the cold Belgian spring, glaciologists Frank Pattyn and Reinhard Drews from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) tells us about their work in the field during this year's BELARE campaign at Princess ...

  • Eric Working in the Great Antarctic Wilderness - International Polar Foundation

    in Interviews

    Channeling the Inner MacGyver

    Originally from the Netherlands, Erik Verhagen has now put in three solid seasons at Princess Elisaabeth Antarctica. He talks to us about daily life in Antarctica, what it means to be running a zero emission polar station, what he misses ...

  • Craig, Illir and François installing the new wind turbine - International Polar Foundation / Alain Hubert

    in Logistics, Infrastructure

    Technical work on the station

    In my last post, I outlined that a big part of what we do at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica is the provision of logistical support to scientists. We also have to maintain and develop the station's infrastructures. That's the job of ...

  • Convoy on the Antarctic plateau - International Polar Foundation

    in Science, Logistics

    Supporting Science at the end of the world

    I wanted to start the new year by updating you on what has been going on at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica during the last month. Let’s start with the science; As Antarctic Operators, our duty is to support scientists, ...

  • Expedition leader Alain Hubert at the newly discovered penguin colony - International Polar Foundation

    in Science

    First Contact: The Emperor Penguin Colony

    Three members of the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica team have the honour of being the first humans to have visited and photographed a newly-discovered 9,000-strong colony of emperor penguins on Antarctica’s Princess Ragnhild Coast. 

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