Polarstern has broken the ice - Landing site is ready for unloading of new Antarctic research station Neumayer III

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    Polarstern in 3D

    PS116 - Weekly Report No. 2 | 19 - 25 November 2018
    The arrival of Polarstern in the port of Las Palmas took a little longer, because the dedicated berth was occupied by another vessel. She drifted

    Polarstern in Port Stanley

    PS120 - Weekly Report No. 1 | 2 - 9 June 2019
    The PS120 Transit on RV „Polarstern“between Port Stanley and Bremerhaven is a research- and training expedition. Twenty-three young scholars, who were chosen [...] taking part in the SoNoAT 2019 „Changing Oceans Changing Future“ programme. This is set upon RV „Polarstern“ as a collaboration of POGO (Partnership for Observations in the Global Oceans), NIPPON FOUNDATION

    Polarstern launches 25th Arctic expedition – research in Greenland Sea, Fram Strait and Baffin Bay

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    Polarstern launches 28th Antarctic season

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    Polarstern on its way into the Antarctic: journey through the polar South Pacific up to New Zealand

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    Polarstern reaches North Pole

    e weeks after setting sail from Tromsø, Norway, the Alfred Wegener Institute's research vessel Polarstern makes a stop at the northernmost point on Earth. Here, too, the international team of researchers

    Polarstern returns from geo-expedition in the Arctic

    Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) research icebreaker Polarstern returned to her homeport in Bremerhaven. Over the previous six weeks, nearly 100 contributing

    Polarstern returns from the Arctic after a five-month journey

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    On Wednesday, 14 October 2015 the research icebreaker Polarstern from the Alfred-Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), entered its homeport in Bremerhaven [...] personnel in Longyearbyen (Spitsbergen) and Tromsø (Norway). In the course of these five months, Polarstern covered over 16,000 nautical miles (more than 30,000 kilometres).

    Polarstern returns to Bremerhaven

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