González Videla Antarctic Base
Videla Station | |
|---|---|
| González Videla Station | |
 Antarctic Research Station Gonzales Videla located in Paradise Bay | |
  Videla Station Location of Videla Station in Antarctica | |
| Coordinates: 64°49′26″S 62°51′25″W / 64.823954°S 62.857077°W | |
| Country |  Chile |
| Location in Antarctica | Waterboat Point Graham Land |
| Administered by | Instituto Antártico Chileno |
| Established | 12 March 1951 |
| Named for | Gabriel González Videla |
| Elevation | 6 m (20 ft) |
| Population (2017)[1] | |
| • Summer | 15 |
| • Winter | 0 |
| Type | Seasonal |
| Period | Summer |
| Status | Operational |
| Activities | List
|
| Website | Chilean Antarctic Institute |
González Videla Base is an inactive research station on the Antarctic mainland at
Paradise Bay. It is named after Chilean President Gabriel González Videla, who in the 1940s became the first chief of state of any nation to visit Antarctica. The station was active from 1951–58, and was reopened briefly in the early 1980s. Occasional summer visits are made by Chilean
parties and tourists.
On the north edge of the station there is a sign identifying Waterboat Point as an official historic site under the
Antarctic Treaty
.
This was the place where the smallest ever wintering-over party (two men) spent a year and a day in 1921-1922. The two men, Thomas Bagshawe and M.C. Lester, had been part of the British Imperial Expedition, but their particular project, which involved flying a number of aircraft to the
gentoo penguins
, probably descendants of the ones he studied, nest in the ruins of the whaleboat shelter.
MS Midnatsol
See also
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-473-40409-3. Archived(PDF) from the original on 22 October 2022. Retrieved 16 January 2023.
Sources
- Antarctica. Sydney: Reader's Digest, 1985, pp. 230–231.
- Oakland, CA: Lonely Planet Publications, 1996.
- Stewart, Andrew, Antarctica: An Encyclopedia. London: McFarland and Co., 1990 (2 volumes), pp. 394, 1080.
- U.S. National Science Foundation, Geographic Names of the Antarctic, Fred G. Alberts, ed. Washington: NSF, 1980.
External links
- Official website Chilean Antarctic Institute
- COMNAP Antarctic Facilities
- COMNAP Antarctic Facilities Map
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