The Data Collection Collective
Various projects collect data automatically with the use of specialised equipment installed at or in the vicinity of the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica. This gallery shows a number of these instruments…
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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Scientific Research Closing Out the 2021-22 Season
The last teams of scienntists who are at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica for the 2021-22 austral summer research season have been hard at work setting up instruments and collecting…
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Mass2Ant at Lokeryggen Ice Rise
During December 2021 and January 2022, a team of four sceintists from the galciology department of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles and one field guide from the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica spent several…
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Scientists and Venturi Arrive
December 9th saw the arrival of the first teams of scientists conducting resaerch this season as well as a team from Monegasque electric vehicle company Venturi, which tested for the…
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Traverse for the CHASE and CLIMB projects
Before his departure in mid-January, Preben Van Omeirmen from Ghent University went on a field expedition to the Antarctic Plateau and the coast to retrieve sampling devices and samples for…
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Armin Sigmund Condutcs Fieldwork for the EPFL-CRYOS “From Clouds to Ground” Project
During the 2020-2021 season, Armin Sigmund, a PhD student from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) CRYOS Lab, contucted fieldwork for the From Clouds to Ground: Snow…
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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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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.…