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Belgo-Japanese Collaboration in Antarctica

Camp of the 51st Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE 51), not far from the Belgian Princess Elisabeth Station at Utsteinen in the Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica.

Camp of the 51st Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE 51), not far from the Belgian Princess Elisabeth Station at Utsteinen in the Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica.

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  • Geologist Dr. Kazuyuki Shiraishi, Vice Director-General in charge of Antarctic Programs at the Japanese National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR).
  • Dr. Kazuyuki Shiraishi of the Japanese National Institute of Polar Research doing a field study in Antarctica with Dr. Hugo Declier and Dr. Frank Pattyn of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in 1991.
  • Camp of the 51st Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE 51), not far from the Belgian Princess Elisabeth Station at Utsteinen in the Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica.
  • Supplies arriving at Utsteinen for the JARE 51 team.
  • Members of the Belgian and Japanese Antarctic expeditions exchange gifts over drinks at the Princess Elisabeth Station.
  • JARE 51 Expedition leader Tsuchiya Noriyoshi riding a ski-doo.
  • Alain Hubert, President of the International Polar Foundation and leader of the Belgian Antarctic Research Expedition (BELARE) converses with members of the Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE).
  • Making final preparations before leaving on the expedition to the Eastern Sør Rondane Mountains.
  • Tsuchiya Noriyoshi, leader of JARE 51, prepares his sledges for departure.
  • JARE and BELARE members celebrating New Year's in Antarctica.
  • The Belgo-Japanese team pauses for a photo before leaving on an expedition to the Eastern Sør Rondane Mountains.
  • Equipment at the abandoned Japanese Asuka Station. Japan will remove the the abandoned station and the equipment left there bit by bit over the next several years in accordance with the environmental protocols of the Antarctic Treaty.

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