Maps and Exploration

Alain Hubert

Alain Hubert (born September 11, 1953, in Schaerbeek) is a Belgian explorer. He is a certified mountain and polar guide, a civil engineer, and the founder President of the International Polar Foundation. With the Foundation and its private partners, he built and financed the construction of the scientific research station ‘Princess Elisabeth’. This station is the first ‘Zero Emissions’ station in Antarctica, designed under the spirit of the Madrid protocol system establishing in 1992 the strictest environmental rules to date for a continent through the Antarctic Treaty System.

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• ▸Georges Rolland
• ▸Georgian architecture
• ▸Haida Gwaii

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