Works at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station (Continued)
Since the new year, the BELARE team has been putting the finishing touches on the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica's new annexes. Now that the new annexes have been hooked…
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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Building a new geomagnetic observatory
One of the projects for this season is to build a new geomagnetic observatory for the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium. The team had to build it without using any…
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Five years at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica
To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the inauguration of Princess Elisabeth Antarctica, we look back on five years of endevour through pictures. Starting with the construction of Princess…
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Rebuilding the Entrance Hall at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica
While the main part of the station is perched on rock, Princess Elisabeth Antarctica's entrance hall is built directly on the icecap. Because the movement of the ice was causing…
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Princess Elisabeth Antarctica: The Book
You've been following the Antarctic adventure online - now you can make it your bedtime read too! Princess Elisabeth Antarctica - And the Zero Emissions Quest is packed with…
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Construction of Fuel and Satellite Platform
During the 2009-2010 Antarctic summer season, completing the final tests of all the active systems in the Princess Elisabeth Station was not the only feat of the BELARE team. Besides…
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The Mary Arctica and the Shirase at Crown Bay
On December 25th, 2009, the Shirase and the Mary Arctica arrived at Crown Bay. With a highly motivated team, the offloading was finished in less than 24 hours.
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New Team Members Settling in at Base Camp
On the morning of December 17th, a team members arrived at Utsteinen. After the airplane was unloaded, everybody settled into their tents and the base camp came back to life.
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Relay Antenna On Utsteinen Summit
The team installed a new relay antenna on Utsteinen Summit, requiring four climbs from each member in a single day. Since they were working in a biting cold, the installation…
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Princess Elisabeth Station: Perspectives and Clichés
The Princess Elisabeth Station has been hibernating in Antarctica since the beginning of the polar winter. Here are a few pictures of the station that were taken during the summer…