The construction of the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica Station

BELARE 2004: First camp on location

BELARE 2004: First camp on location

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  • BELARE 2004: First camp on location
  • The ingredients of a successful unloading: cranes, containers, Prinoths and the team!
  • Another container unloaded from the Papanin
  • Base camp at the coast: who will find the Papanin
  • Exploration of the site using bamboos
  • Departure of the convoy for the unloading
  • Drilling rig on superposed granite blocs making up the ridge - the snow has been cleared to build the garage, thus exposing the rock face
  • Adjusting the first elements of the metal structure on the anchoring points
  • First wooden beams up
  • Putting into place modules
  • Base camp at Utsteinen
  • BELARE 2004: First wind turbine
  • Laborelec: Cabling the wind turbines
  • Ilyr and Craig on the rooftop of the extension
  • Elisabeth's best profile
  • Station at the end of the first construction phase
  • Work being carried out in the future living room
  • Inspection of the
  • Technical core of the station
  • The assembly of the tubes
  • Installing the solar pannels
  • The living room
  • The kitchen
  • A bedroom
  • Head in the clouds
  • Front view taken summer of 2008-09
  • The station in it's environment

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Teacher Koen Meirlaen performs the experiment at the Princess Elisabeth station in Antarctica.

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