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Every IPF team member and visiting scientist must undergo mandatory medical field training to make sure they know how to handle emergency situations should they arise. Here they simulate taking an injured person to the station for medical treatment.

This is a photo of the DC3 that brought the first members of the BELARE 2024-2025 expedition to the Princess Elisabeth Station. 

This complex instruments is there to detect whistler waves, which are very low frequency electromagnetic wave. 

The Princess Elisabeth Antarctica on arrival for the 2024-2025 BELARE campaign prior to all the snow being cleared away that had accumulated over the past winter months. 

A member of the IPF team is seen welding an I-beam which will be used to level the station on one of the hydraulic jacks that prop up the station.  

The PEA station after 3 days work of clearing all the snow that had accumulated over the winter months from infront of the station. 

The Princess Elisabeth Antarctica is supported by hydraulic jacks which can be individually adjusted to ensure that the station stays level.

The Princess Elisabeth Antarctica after all the snow had been removed from in-front of the station. 

There were a number of interactive screens that visitors could use at their own pace to learn about the research and other facets of work and life on the Antarctic continent today.