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IPF crew members adding the sealing cover to the new protective covering between the roof of the station's annexes and the granite ridge on which the station is anchored.

Here a field guide assists a scientist from the EPFL Lausanne install an instrument on the 30 meter tower at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica. The instrument that was installed measures wind speed with high precision. 

Every year or two a cargo ship is organized to bring the biggest, bulkiest and heaviest items that are necessary to keep operations running smoothly to the Antarctic ice sheet. The ship typically departs from Cape Town and has various stops along it's route to resupply Antarctic research stations. 

A beautiful Antarctic sunset is captured out of one of the windows at the Princess Elisabeth station.

Panorama photo of the traverse team leaving the station and headed to the caost to meet the cargo ship coming from Cape Town. 

All the 6 AWS that make up the PEACE transect must be visited each season to ensure that all the instruments are properly functioning. This station received some upgrades in 2024, including a new iridium antenna for communicating with a polar orbiting satellite as well as recalibrating the anemometers that measure wind speed and direction. 

Quinten Vanhellemont from the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences is pictured here in front of the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica polar research station. He has been coming to Antarctica and working on various projects, most recently as part of the EXPOSOILS research team as well as installing and maintaining hyperspectral cameras for a University of Maryland lead project. 

This Automatic Weather Station (AWS) is called PE-BLU because it was originally installed in 2013 at the blue ice region some 60 km from the Princess Elisabeth Research Station. This location is now where the Perseus International Airfield is located. This station has been reliably collecting data on various weather parameters for the past 11 years, and still going strong!

A scientist installing his SKYCAM instrument on top of the south science shelter at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica.