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.

  • Sea ice

    Sea ice and Icebergs

    11.12.2006

    Discover landscapes you can come accross on the way to Antarctica by boat. This gallery was done by Gauthier Chapelle aboard Polarstern.

  • Antarctic Petrels

    Sailing through Antarctic ice

    05.12.2006

    Discover landscapes you can come accross on the way to Antarctica by boat. This gallery was done by Gauthier Chapelle aboard Polarstern.

  • Light-mantled Sooty Albatros

    Birds of the South Atlantic

    01.12.2006

    Discover what bird species you can encounter on the way to Antarctica. This gallery was done by Gauthier Chapelle aboard Polarstern.

  • Antarctic Prion in the foreground and Blue Petrel in the background

    Birds of the Antarctic convergence

    01.12.2006

    Discover what bird species you can encounter on the way to Antarctica. This gallery was done by Gauthier Chapelle aboard Polarstern.

  • An ice core is a core sample of ice removed from a glacier, most commonly from the polar ice caps of Antarctica, Greenland or from high mountain glaciers elsewhere. As the ice forms from the incremental buildup of annual layers of snow, lower layers are older than upper, and an ice core contains ice formed over a range of years. The properties of the ice or inclusions within the ice can then be used to reconstruct a climatic record over the age range of the whole coring (from several thousands years in mountains glaciers up to 800 000 years in the Antarctic ice cap).

    Ice coring

    13.12.2005

    Learn how scientists are extracting ice cores from Antarctica and Greenland ice sheets or high mountain glaciers.

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

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