Waterboat Point ( Spanish : Península Munita ) is the low westernmost termination of the peninsula between Paradise Harbor and Andvord Bay on the west coast of Graham Land . This feature has "island" characteristics, but it is only separated from the mainland at high water and is more usefully described as a "point". Chile's González Videla Antarctic Base is located at Waterboat Point.
5-544: González Videla Base is an inactive research station on the Antarctic mainland at Waterboat Point in 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
10-572: The South Pole , was aborted. Nevertheless, they decided to stay over for the winter and made their shelter in an old whaling boat they found on this site. Their time was not wasted, however, because Bagshawe wrote the first scientific study of penguin breeding development. Today the gentoo penguins , probably descendants of the ones he studied, nest in the ruins of the whaleboat shelter. Waterboat Point Named "Península Munita" by Chile, after Rear Admiral Diego Munita Whittaker, Commodore in
15-484: The V chilean Antarctic Campaign, 1951, under who's command González Videla Base was built. The coast in this vicinity was first roughly surveyed by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in 1898. The point was surveyed and given its name by Thomas W. Bagshawe and Maxime C. Lester who lived here, in a hut improvised from a water boat, from January 1921 until January 1922. Although only the base of
20-772: The boat, foundations of doorposts and an outline of the hut and extension still exist, the remains and immediate environs have been designated a Historic Site or Monument (HSM 56), following a proposal by Chile and the United Kingdom to the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting . [REDACTED] This article incorporates public domain material from "Waterboat Point" . Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . 64°49′S 62°51′W / 64.817°S 62.850°W / -64.817; -62.850 This Danco Coast location article
25-564: 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
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