• At Neumayer Station

    3 | 4 January – 8 January 2017
    4 January 2017, 2 weeks and 5 days at sea. The morning finds Polarstern alongside the ice shelf edge, or, more precisely, at the north-eastern berth of Atka Sea Port.

  • The Drake Passage – Second Traverse

    PS97 Weekly Report No. 5 | 14. - 20. March 2016
    During the fifth week of our Polarstern expedition PS97 we left the Antarctic Peninsula area close to Elephant Island to start our second Drake Passage

  • We are leaving Cape Town

    PS103 - Weekly Report No. 1 | 16 - 20 December 2016
    16. December, day of departure As planned, Polarstern pushes away from the pier in Cape Town at 6pm, taking off for her 103rd expedition to the Antarctic

  • Neumayer and beyond

    PS111 – Weekly Report No. 2 | 27 January - 2 February 2018
    Now we have arrived – Polarstern makes her way easily through the disintegrating winter sea ice cover, heading for the northeastern edge of

  • A full loaded vessel

    PS 117 - Weekly Report No 1 | 15 – 20 December 2018
    As planned, Polarstern pushes away from the pier in Cape Town on 15 December at 4pm, taking off for her 117th expedition to the Antarctic.

  • A stormy send-off

    No. 1 | 5 - 11 December 2021
    After a snowy Bremerhaven departure on Dec 5 th 2021 at 13:00, Polarstern made its way through the port, the locks and towards the English Channel.

  • From Longyearbyen through Fram Strait towards Northeast Greenland

    Weekly Report No. 1 | 29 June to 5 July 2015
    At 8:00 am the embarkment of scientists starts. As Polarstern cannot enter the harbor pier directly, people have to use the Zodiac (Fig.1).

  • MOSAiC

    field expedition to the Central Arctic ever. Key element is the drift of the research icebreaker Polarstern frozen into the pack ice over an entire year. Over all, more than 300 scientists from 17 countries [...] to analyzing and exploiting the data over the coming years to decades. Beyond an ice camp around Polarstern, a distributed network of observations, airborne and satellite observations contribute to the field

  • Underway observations

    PS106/1 - Weekly Report No. 1 | 24. - 30. May 2017
    On May 24, 2017 at 12:00 Polarstern has departed for the Arctic Expeditions in summer 2017.

  • Shopping only once a year

    Antarctica look after themselves? In a blog post, the team reports on the supplies provided by the Polarstern