BELARE Traverse November 2024
Riding in a Toyota Hilux towards PEA after spending some time at Perseus Airfield to prepare for the arrival of scientists in a few days!
Through these small videos, we hope to give you a taste of what it is like to work and live at the Princess Elisabeth Station. We tried to cover a broad range of topics and uploaded parts of our archives to do so. We hope you'll like it.
Riding in a Toyota Hilux towards PEA after spending some time at Perseus Airfield to prepare for the arrival of scientists in a few days!
This week two members of our team traveled to the coast when they just so happened to encounter a pod of Arnoux's beaked whales swimming and feeding amongst the…
A member of our team works diligently to clear all the snow from in-front of the Princess Elisabeth station that had piled up over the winter months.
There can be strong winds at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica which is ideal for our renewable ideology. Almost all the energy produced at PEA either comes from these wind turbines…
This videos is a timelapse of the opening days of the 2024-25 season. We can see how snow is being cleared from around the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica!
Every season we fly the flags of the nations that are represented by people at the station as an omen to the international collaboration and efforts required to work in…
In January 2024, researcher Sibylle Boxho from the Unviersite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) travelled to Antarctica for the PASPARTOUT project, which is seeking to understand the links between atmospheric circulation patterns,…
The BELARE team had to make several traverses to and from the coast to bring waste containters to a cargo ship to be evacuated and to bring supplies and equipment…
In January 2024 the BAELARE team went to the Princess Regnhild Coast to unload the cargo ship with supplies and equipment destined for PEA
Timothée Grosrenaud, who accompanied Alain on each of the traverses, took some amazing drone videos of the Derwael Ice Shelf where the cargo ship moored in January 2024.