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.
Their Royal Highnesses, Prince Philippe, and his daughter Princess Elisabeth of Belgium visited the “Inside the Station” exhibition at Tour & Taxis, Brussels today, an interactive journey…
A team of scientists working at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica has recently discovered a meteorite weighing 18kg embedded in the East Antarctic ice sheet, the largest such meteorite found in…
Freshly returned from the Antarctic Winter, to the cold Belgian spring, glaciologists Frank Pattyn and Reinhard Drews from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) tells us about their work…
As the 2012-2013 BELARE Antarctic season draws to a close, expedition leader Alain Hubert brings us up to date with the work and projects being carried out at Princess Elisabeth…
Originally from the Netherlands, Erik Verhagen has now put in three solid seasons at Princess Elisaabeth Antarctica. He talks to us about daily life in Antarctica, what it means to…
How fast time is passing, now that we’ve reached the season’s halfway mark at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica. The days have gone quickly because we’ve…
In my last post, I outlined that a big part of what we do at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica is the provision of logistical support to scientists. We also have to…
I wanted to start the new year by updating you on what has been going on at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica during the last month. Let’s start with the…
Three members of the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica team have the honour of being the first humans to have visited and photographed a newly-discovered 9,000-strong colony of emperor penguins on Antarctica…
All of the international team at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica wish you a very happy new year, and a great 2013! Bonne année and gelukkig nieuwjaar!