skies with only a few clouds, but with strong head-winds for Polarstern. By crossing the northern tropic, the Tropic of Cancer, at 23° 26’ 05” North during the night of 31st May to 1st June we have left

On board the Polarstern research vessel, an international group of young scientists will immerse in the fascinating world of marine research. They are

of the Word Meteorological Organization WMO. On board of Polarstern the weather observations are coded according to the FM12/13 code and transferred without delay into the Global Telecommunication

KFZ-Haftpflichtversicherungen-KFZ-Haftpflichtversicherungen Tender Polarstern II Construction and ready-to-operate delivery of the icebreaking polar research and supply vessel POLARSTERN II PLEASE NOTE: Series

Report No. 1 | 9 till 15 November 2015
After 13 days at sea Polarstern reached Las Palmas on the Canary Islands on the 10th November. The team of three geophysicists left the ship and six new people

the end of February. The current expedition team on board RV Polarstern has just reported virtually ice-free conditions in its current research area, the Bellingshausen Sea.

of all time: in September 2019 the German research icebreaker Polarstern will depart from Tromsø, Norway and, once it has reached its destination, will spend the next year drifting through the Arctic

finally time: this evening at 8:30 p.m. the German icebreaker Polarstern will depart from the Norwegian port of Tromsø. Escorted by the Russian icebreaker Akademik Fedorov, she will set sail for the

marvellous weather. The sun was shining from a blue sky while POLARSTERN passed the fjords towards the North-Atlantic. Finally, we are let loose. In particular, the newbies are thrilled by this new

Antarctic on board the Alfred Wegener Institute's icebreaker Polarstern since 8 February 2026. In this key region for global ocean currents, the focus has been on the outflow of ice and water from the