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Videos

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.

January 28, 2021 in Infrastructure, Building the station

Princess Elisabeth Antarctica: Renovated and Better than Ever

In this video, which features spectacular drone footage of the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica, we learn how the station has been undergoing renovation over the last several seasons.
February 5, 2014 in Science, Logistics, Infrastructure, Building the station

Princess Elisabeth Antarctica turns five!

Princess Elisabeth Antarctica, the first Zero Emission polar research station, was officially inaugurated five years ago, on the 15th of February 2009. In this video, we look back on those five…
March 5, 2010 in Building the station

Princess Elisabeth Antarctica is linked!

The International Polar Foundation (IPF) and global satellite operator SES S.A. have successfully completed the installation and tests of the SES satellite ground station in Antarctica.
February 18, 2010 in Building the station

Construction of the Fuel Platform

Thanks to the joint efforts of all members of the 2009-2010 BELARE team, the construction of the fuel platform next to the Princess Elisabeth Station on Utsteinen Ridge was completed…
May 12, 2009 in Building the station

Aiming For Zero Emission

This movie details the Princess Elisabeth Station project from the plans to the end of the building phase. It is a short version of a movie created to present the…
March 6, 2009 in Building the station

Energy management at the Princess Elisabeth Station

There's no improvising the building of a "zero emission" station. Aside from having to determine the various ways of producing energy, you also have to find a way to store…
January 22, 2009 in Building the station

Arrival of Technical Core Components

The last containers carrying the last missing parts of the station such as the walls or the ceilings or some other technical part such as the bioreactors or the cabinets…
October 16, 2008 in Building the station

Princess Elisabeth Station Mock-Up: Assembling the Ventilation System

A scaled mock-up of the Princess Elisabeth station's technical core was built at Laborelec (research centre of the group GDF SUEZ) in Linkebeek. For the past three and a half…
September 24, 2008 in Building the station

Genesis of the Princess Elisabeth Station, told by Alain Hubert

As project director and chief engineer of the Princess Elisabeth station construction, Alain Hubert, founding president of the International Polar Foundation (IPF), presents the genesis of the IPF and of…
March 11, 2008 in Building the station

The Construction of the Princess Elisabeth Station

This video goes over the different steps of the construction of the Princess Elisabeth Station. The International Polar Foundation would like to thank MDW Productions for making this movie in…