700 kilograms of national history is this. The anchor is the only thing that, above water, the rest of the research ship the Belgica. 130 years ago Adrien de Gerlache left the Driemaster with his crew on an expedition to the Zuidpool.
Jan Seys, Flemish Institute for the Sea Ostend: “You can hardly imagine that at the end of the nineteenth century a twenty -member crew freezer frozen in the ice in Antarctica. And actually not knowing if they will ever get out. There have been dead, people have been half crazy. There had been a heroic act very much. has. “