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.
An international team of scientists working at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica recently discovered a meteorite weighing a massive 18kg embedded in the East Antarctic ice sheet, the largest such meteorite…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…