Wrapping up the 2021-22 Season: Final Tasks Before Departure
Each February at the end of the austral summer research reason at the Princess Elsiabeth Antarctica the IPF team must take care of a number of important tasks to ensure…
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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Work and Leisure at PEA
Take a look into the lives of station staff both when they're hard at work and when they're enjoying their leisure time!
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Keeping up the Princess
Every year the team from the International Polar Foundation must do a lot to make sure that the world's first "zero emission" polar research station, the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica,…
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First Month at PEA during 2021-22 Season
In this photo gallery we present a number of photos from the first month that the 2021-22 BELARE team spent at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica.
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Preparations for Departure
The BELARE team has bene very busy preparing the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica for overwintering while they pack up for the trip home. The station's solar panels have been covered…
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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…
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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…
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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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Landing of First Intercontinental Flight at Perseus Airstrip
On 22 November 2019, the first intercontinental DROMLAN flight to Perseus Airstrip arrived from Cape Town around 18:00 UTC. This was a historic moment! Located just 60 km north of the Princess…