Bad Weather Arrives at PEA
After some pleasant weather during the first few weeks of the season, stormy weather has arrived at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica, forcing a few changes of plan and even unexpected…
News from Antarctica
Interested in what's happening down at Princess Elisabeth? News from the field are posted here regularily to keep you updated about what's going on.
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Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Welcomes First Scientists of the Season
On December 2nd, Princess Elisabeth Antarctica (PEA) welcomed the first scientific team of the season. Comprising four scientists, three pilots, and technicians from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in Germany,…
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Unusually Warm Weather Hits PEA while the Team Gets to Work
The team enjoyed pleasant weather as they started working on the first major tasks of the season.
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Week One at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica - Up and Running Again!
Thanks to a productive first week and favourable weather, the station is now running at full power with all systems successfully restarted.
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Welcome to Princess Elisabeth Antarctica!
The 2023-2024 season is off to an active start as the Belgian Antarctic Research Expedition (BELARE) lead team arrived at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica research station!
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An Eventful Season for Meteorite Hunters at PEA
For more than ten years, meteorite scientists from Belgian universities have been using the Belgian Princess Elisabeth Antarctica research station as a base from which to search for meteorites, which…
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Two Successful Seasons for Horizon 2020 HYPERNETS Project at PEA
During the 2021-22 and 2022-23 austral summer research seasons, Quinten Vanhellemont from the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences spent several weeks at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica installing and maintaining…
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IPF, WSL and CU Boulder Innovate to Better Understand Climate Change
Since 2012, with the help of its partners from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) in Zürich, Switzerland and the University of Colorado…
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Final Days of the Season
The 2022-23 season is drawing to a close. The BELARE team had been very busy with the final tasks before their scheduled departure at the end of this week.
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Much to Do with a Week to Go
The team of four led by Alain Hubert who had gone to the coast to offload cargo from the ship made it back to the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Wednesday afternoon.