Picture Galleries

All picture galleries published on this internet site are directly accessible via this section. These photos relate to the foundation's educational projects or constitute resources which are attached to or independent of the teaching tools such as CD-ROMS, teaching dossiers, exhibitions and others.

  • Ice core drilling

    BELISSIMA: Ice Coring around Princess Elisabeth Station

    19.06.2009

    The first scientific research expedition linked to the Princess Elisabeth Station took place in November and December 2008. During this period, glaciologists from BELISSIMA studied the movements of the Antarctic ice cap (ice resting on top of the continent). During…

  • Introduction to Class Zero Emission

    Class Zero Emission: A First Success

    16.03.2009

    Since its opening two weeks ago, 300 students have already attended Class Zero Emission. Through a 4-hour interactive journey through the meanders of climate change, polar regions and science, and sustainable development, students take part in a variety of activities…

  • Caroline Goffinet

    Draw your own zero emission station contest: winners

    04.02.2009

    Although the ten winning drawings from the Draw your own "zero emission" station contest are already on their way to the Princess Elisabeth Station in Antarctica, you can still admire these original and imaginative masterpieces in our photo gallery.

  • Princess Elisabeth Station

    Princess Elisabeth Station

    30.12.2008

    This picture gallery shows various angles of the first ever "zero emission" polar station: the Princess Elisabeth Station, located in Utsteinen.

  • Orca: Although a lot of people think whales are fish, they are actually mammals: they breathe air into lungs, they are warm-blooded animals, they feed their young with milk produced by mammary glands, and they have hair.

    Whales and dolphins (cetaceans)

    26.10.2007

    Pictures of cetaceans explaining their main characteristics and their differences with fish.

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Latest Pictures

  • This is the first part of Class Zero Emission, where we discuss climate and how it works. A presenter explains how the different greenhouse gases work using a digital animation.
  • Using a large world map with magnets with pictures and chemical symbols on them, the children learn about the causes and consequences of current climate change.
  • Before the students leave on an expedition to the Poles, one of them gets dressed up as polar scientist.
  • Ready to go!
  • The sledge that Alain Hubert (explorer and founder of the IPF) pulled during his Arctic Arc expedition.
  • The Polar Regions: the second part of Class Zero Emission. Students learning by playing with a 3D puzzle of the Arctic.

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

Join the Sun Shadows Project!

You don’t need much, just some sun and a long stick!Pupils and teachers all over the world join forces to measure the shadows of a 1m long stick!…

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