Christmas dinner will be enjoyed with around 30 other Norwegians at the Troll station. It will taste good and be relatively relaxed. Everything has gone according to plan so far since arriving at Troll on Thursday and being able to start work on the new NORSAR station on Saturday.

For three months, they will be in Antarctica in temperatures of up to minus 30 degrees Celsius, building a brand new station for NORSAR. It was supposed to be established at Troll, but because the government has decided to upgrade the Troll research station and, among other things, build a wind power station for green energy, NORSAR had to move the measuring station away from this facility. 

Fieldwork

The direct cause is the noise that the wind turbines will generate. The observatory will be made autonomous to limit the need for supervision. That is what we will be building in the coming weeks, says Ravn, continuing:

- Because the weather now looks set to be good, with little wind, we hope to be able to get out there and start work perhaps as early as this weekend.

It takes about an hour to travel by tracked vehicle from Troll to where we will set up the station. Of course, it's nice to get off to a good start. Then we can celebrate Christmas with a clear conscience.

We will be following Ravn and Morten over the coming weeks as they establish the new NORSAR station in Antarctica.