Live from Antarctica: January 9
The BELARE relief team for the second part of the season has arrived at Troll, and has been blocked here by poor visibility and snowy weather conditions at Utsteinen. We…
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's going on.
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Report of Activities at Utsteinen
New expedition members arrived in Antarctica from Cape Town by DC-2 on 19 December. Their primary mission was to assess the progress of the preparatory work that needs to be done…
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Live From Antarctica: Sunday December 28th
Alain, René, Ilyr and Thomas arrived as scouts on their ski-doos wearing their spacesuits. Thomas, our freshly arrived cameraman, wants to find the best spot to film the arrival.
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Live From Antarctica: Saturday December 27th
We have confirmation: the convoy arrives tomorrow! Here we're getting a move on to finish certain stages of the project, which will allow us to immediately use the material brought…
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Live From Antarctica: Friday 26 December
The latest news from the coast: the traverse convoy will definitely be back on Sunday morning. Four sledges per Prinoth tractor, the original traverse team (eight persons), and some passengers…
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Live From Antarctica: Wednesday 24 December
It's Christmas Eve! We've heard good news from the coast, albeit very brief. Everything is fine. The unloading of the containers has been completed, while loading of the empty containers…
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Live from Antarctica : Guest report
Tomorrow will be the second Christmas I spend in Antarctica. It will be as white as the first one, which is not likely to be the case back in Belgium.…
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Live from Antarctica : Tuesday December 23
The wind is holding up! That's been a long time... No news from the coast = good news. The unloading must be so intense that they don't even have time to…
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Live From Antarctica: Monday 22 December
Good news from the coast, despite the broken down Prinoth tractor. Spirits are high and the working atmosphere is excellent: the teams are getting along, collaboration with the Ivan Papanin's…
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Live From Antarctica: Sunday December 21
It's summertime! Even the weather is nice.... Since it's Sunday, we have gone out on a walk in the "windscoop" to tour the newcomers around the local sites. As could…