In 2004, the Belgian government commissioned the IPF to design and construct a new research base in Antarctica, to become operational during the International Polar Year at the end of 2007. The project is being developed in cooperation with other Antarctic Treaty countries, (such as Japan, Sweden, Germany, and Norway), who have offered their expertise in logistics and various technical areas. .

Belgium has a long history of scientific activity in Antarctica, dating back to the first over-wintering in 1897, from which the Belgian Antarctic Expedition returned with an important scientific harvest: bathymetrical and hydrological soundings, numerous botanical and zoological samples, a large amount of oceanographical, meteorological, geomagnetic, glaciological and geological observation data.
Belgium next returned to the Antarctic sixty years later to build the Baudoin Station which operated until 1967. This was part of Belgium’s celebrating the 1957-58 International Geophysical Year (IGY) , a key event for international scientific collaboration which led to the signing of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959
The station will house twenty people during the summer season, and will be based between the Russian station Novolazarevskaya and the Japanese Station, Syowa, in the Dronning Maud Land Region. A site survey expedition was carried out in November 2004.

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