This weekend, the research vessel Polarstern is scheduled to depart from her homeport in Bremerhaven. In addition to the crew, 33 scientific expedition participants will be on board – primarily young

the German research fleet, German shipbuilding, and international polar research alike: the new Polarstern will be constructed in Wismar by thyssenkrupp Marine Systems. company received the official contract

Polarstern returned to her home port of Bremerhaven at high tide this morning. After a good 20 weeks in the Antarctic season, the research vessel moored at the pier in the overseas harbour at 5:00 am.

The centrepiece of the new construction project for the Polarstern's successor is now taking shape: by the end of August, TKMS, Wärtsilä, Steerprop and Aker Arctic had inked the contracts for the entire

Research ice breaker Polarstern The Polarstern app Position and weather data in real time as well as up-to-date photos and reports from aboard the Polarstern several times a week: the AWI flagship has [...] research vessel Polarstern drives through the polar regions of our earth in the service of science. Not a jam bucket View back into the chronicle of the research ice breaker Polarstern from the construction [...] expedition participants Expedition programs Publications about Polarstern Raw data in Pangaea News News from aboard will be available in the Polarstern app. Below you can download the reports additionally as

polar research: New Polarstern Detlef Wilde, project director for the construction of the new Polarstern at the Alfred Wegener Institute. Research vessel Icebreaker Expedition New Polarstern The Research Vessel [...] status of the procurement procedure for the new Polarstern is expected in 2024. The handover of the completed ship is slated for 2027. The new Polarstern will make it possible for researchers from around [...] generations. The requirements profile reflects the lessons learned over the Polarstern’s nearly 40 years of service. The new Polarstern will be capable of operating under changing ice and weather conditions

crew of the Polarstern even frees a British research ship trapped in the pack ice. Polarstern in the waters off Greenland (Photo: Hannes Grobe) Operations 1982-1989 9 December 1982 – RV Polarstern is taken [...] amounted to 188 million marks (over 96 million euros). Contruction of Polarstern (Photo: Klaus von Bröckel) Construction of Polarstern II Data June 1979 – The invitation to tender for construction of the [...] in Kiel 25.01.1982 named „Polarstern“ 9. Dezember 1982 by German Federal Ministe r for Research Heinz Riesenhuber Construction period The new research icebreaker Polarstern’s first journeys take her to

Apr-May 2016 RV Polarstern, PS99, Fram Strait, Bremerhaven to Tromsö, Jun-Jul 2016 RV Polarstern, PS103, Atlantic Southern Ocean, Capetown to Punta Arenas, Dec 2016-Feb 2017 RV Polarstern, PS107, Fram Strait [...] al. 2019, Bracher et al. 2020). Past cruises RV Polarstern, ANT XXIV-1, Bremerhaven (Germany) to Cape Town (South Africa) in Oct/Nov 2007 RV Polarstern, ANT XXIV-4, Punta Arenas (Chile) to Bremerhaven [...] in Jul/Aug 2008 RV Polarstern, ANT XXV-1, Bremerhaven to Cape Town, Nov/Dec 2008 RV Sonne, SO202.2 (TransBrom-Sonne), Kushiro (Japan) to Townsville (Australia), Oct 2009 RV Polarstern, ANT XXVI-4, Punta

The Research Vessel Polarstern is the most important resource for German polar research and the flagship of the Alfred Wegener Institute. Commissioned on 9 December 1982, the Polarstern has since logged more [...] latest technologies available. A successor to the Polarstern is also planned. What’s on the odometer? By June 2025, the research icebreaker Polarstern had logged 1,963,207 nautical miles. One nautical [...] Today she’s one of the world’s most advanced and versatile polar research ships in the world. The Polarstern operates an average of 305 days a year, typically cruising in the Antarctic from November to March

During the last Antarctic season, British Polarstern expedition members Dr. Robert D. Larter and Dr. Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) discovered a new landmark in the Southern [...] Southern Ocean with one of the Polarstern helicopters. This cape is named in honour of the late AWI geologist Christian Hass.