Inside the Station Exhibition Opens in Brussels
While the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica team are toiling away in the frozen south, you can see if you're up to the challenge of living in Antarctica! Starting Saturday December 22nd,…
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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Mass Change in Antarctica: Interview with Frank Pattyn
We caught up for a chat with Frank Pattyn, who heads up the IceCon: Constraining Ice Mass Change in Antarctica project, currently based at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica. IceCon…
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At Derwael Ice Rise
Following up Alain's blog - The World's Most Southerly Anthill, the team have now moved a couple of hundred kilometres to the Derwael ice rise, to start work on the…
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The World’s Most Southerly Anthill
The International Polar Foundation's Alain Hubert reports from a hive of activity, as the current science season kicks off at the world's first zero emission polar research station, Princess Elisabeth…
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InBev Baillet-Latour Fellowship laureate Reinhard Drews begins research in Antarctica
Leaving on the first scientific expedition of the 2012-13 season from Princess Elisabeth Antarctica is post-doc researcher at the Laboratoire de Glaciologie at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)…
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Inside the Station: Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Exhibition set for Brussels
Over just four days back in 2007, an incredible 35,000 people flocked Brussels venue Tour & Taxis to celebrate the launch of the world’s first zero emission polar research station,…
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Season’s First Science Teams Arrive at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica
Just before the weekend, the first nine scientists of the summer season, from Belgium, UK, Japan and Germany, were welcomed to Princess Elisabeth Antarctica by expedition leader Alain Hubert and…
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The First 48 Hours at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica
It's been just over 48 hours since the Princess Elisabeth Antarctic team touched down for the beginning of the 2012-2013 season. Expedition leader Alain Hubert shares his first impressions from Antarctica.…
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Station team beats weather to get Antarctic season underway
Welcome to the first news of the Antarctic summer! After a week of delays due to bad weather, Princess Elisabeth Antarctica’s operations team arrived on the ice at 10:24…
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Antarctic season delayed by bad weather
Wild Antarctic winter is currently preventing our operations team from reaching Princess Elisabeth Antarctica, for what was already planned to be a very busy season. The team members, led by…