The Mary Arctica Has Arrived: Dashing for the Coast!
At 4:35 AM today, Nighat Amin sent us a very brief email notifying us that the Mary Arctica would finally be able to make it through the pack ice and reach…
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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Waiting for the ship
In spite of the great support provided by the Belgian Department of Defense to help it find a way out of the Antarctic pack ice, the Mary Arctica is still…
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Situation Becomes Critical at PEA
Since our latest news item, things have become worse at PEA. The Mary Arctica, which will re-supply the station and is carrying the two helicopters for the German scientists, is…
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The Mary Arctica Blocked by Ice: a Major Setback
With the arrival of the new IPF team, we learned that the Mary Arctica is trapped in ice more than 400km from its offloading site at Crown Bay. It is…
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Some Leave, Others Arrive
On December 23rd, at 7.30 am, the nice weather finally returned. This allowed us to resume the twin-engine DC3/Basler rotations between Novolazarevskaya and our station.
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Weather Permitting
All Antarctic activities are subjected to the law of the elements. This is even truer this season than during the previous ones. Besides the poor weather conditions we had upon…
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Sea Water Measurements at the Coast
Last week, a small team led by Alain Hubert guided BELISSIMA scientist Katherine Leonard to the coast. The trip went well, and upon reaching the coast, the team quickly set…
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A Successful Trip to the Coast
At 10 o'clock on Thurday morning, a team led by Alain Hubert left Utsteinen to set up the first base camp of the BELISSIMA project at the coast, some 200km north…
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Straight Through the White-Out
Our first Mission this year was to drive the Japanese to their first base camp, 76km away from the station. What should have been a simple task turned into quite…
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Arrival of the Japanese Scientists
Today, a team of geologists from the National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) in Tokyo arrived with two tons of material. On top of carrying on with digging out the…