Works at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station
Ever since their arrival in late November, the BELARE team has been hard at work on a number of maintenance projects around the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station. This gallery gives…
Picture Galleries
Every season, we publish pictures from Antarctica and we now have quite an archive available. You can follow the life of the Princess Elisabeth Station from its origins in Brussels until the present.
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First Weeks of 2020-2021 Season
The 2020-2021 BELARE season is off to a good start, despite the added logistical challenge this year of dealing with the COVID-19 situation. The team - consisting of Expedition Leader…
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Encountering Wildlife at the Coast of Antarctica
During scientific research expeditions and traverses to pick up supplies brought by cargo ship to the coast of East Antarctica, the possibility of encountering Antarctic wildlife is pretty high. Here…
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Antarctica’s Stunning Landscapes
While searching for a suitable site on the coast of the Dornning Maud Land in East Antarctica to unload materials and supplies from cargo ships, BELARE Team Leader Alain Hubert…
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Traverses Collect Cargo Brought by Ship
During the season 2019/2020, three heavily-loaded traverses were organised to transport cargo delivered by ship to the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica (PEA) Research Station. The more than 200 km journey between…
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Scenes from IPF’s Skype Classes from the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica
During the 2019-2020 austral summer research season in Antarctica, the International Polar Foundation has organised a number of Skype classes with school children from around Europe. Since the Princess…
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Snapshots of Scientific Research at the Princess Elisabeth Antartica
The scientific teams from the BioFe, MICROBIAN, and BELAM projects, as well as researchers from the Japanese National Institute for Polar Research (NIPR) are conducting research during the 2019-2020 season.…
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Installing the New Relay Antenna at Vesthaugen Nunatak
IPF engineers and technicians spent two days at Vesthaugen Nunatak, halfway between the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Research Station and the new Perseus Intercontinental Airstrip, installing a new wireless relay.…
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Constructing a New Garage
The garage on the north side of the station has been in sevice for ten years already, and over that peridod of time, the ice it has been standing on…
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Building Solar Power Units for Scientists
BELARE engineers Guus Luppens and Johan De Muylder have been hard at work building mobile solar-powered devices to provide scientists working in the field with renewable energy to power their…