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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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).

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.

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

It was the largest Arctic expedition in history: on 12 October 2020 our research vessel Polarstern returned after a year-long drift.