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.
The Annual Field Training Weekend for the Belgian Antarctic Research Expeditions took place from the 4th to the 7th of October. The participants included 14 members of the station team and…
As the 2012-2013 BELARE Antarctic season draws to a close, expedition leader Alain Hubert brings us up to date with the work and projects being carried out at Princess Elisabeth…
How fast time is passing, now that we’ve reached the season’s halfway mark at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica. The days have gone quickly because we’ve…
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…
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…
Following up Alain's blog - The World's Most Southerly Anthill, the team have now moved a couple of hundred kilometres to the Derwael ice rise, to start work on the…
The International Polar Foundation's Alain Hubert reports from a hive of activity, as the current science season kicks off at the world's first zero emission polar research station, Princess Elisabeth…
It's been just over 48 hours since the Princess Elisabeth Antarctic team touched down for the beginning of the 2012-2013 season. Expedition leader Alain Hubert shares his first impressions from Antarctica.…
Welcome to the first news of the Antarctic summer! After a week of delays due to bad weather, Princess Elisabeth Antarctica’s operations team arrived on the ice at 10:24…
Wild Antarctic winter is currently preventing our operations team from reaching Princess Elisabeth Antarctica, for what was already planned to be a very busy season. The team members, led by…