González Videla Antarctic Station
Coordinates: 64 ° 49 ′ 25.9 ″ S , 62 ° 51 ′ 26.9 ″ W.
The González Videla Antarctic Station is a facility in Chile and named after the former President Gabriel González Videla , the first head of state to visit Antarctica. It is located at Waterboat Point on Paradise Harbor on the Antarctic Peninsula .
The station is now an "inactive" research station with supplies and emergency equipment. However, it is still manned in the Antarctic summer and is regularly approached by supply ships.
The González Videla Antarctic Station also serves as a representative office for Chile in the Antarctic to secure possible future territorial and sovereign claims on the Antarctic Peninsula, which is also claimed by Argentina and Great Britain .
At the northern end of the station there is a sign that marks the historic Waterboat Point (position of a destroyed hut of the British Imperial Antarctic Expedition 1920–1922). The site is now protected by the Antarctic Treaty as the HSM-56 Historic Site . A shelter built in 1950 in the immediate vicinity of today's station is also protected (historical site HSM-30 ).
literature
- Antarctica . Reader's Digest, Sydney 1985, p. 230 f.
- Lonely Planet : Antarctica: a Lonely Planet Travel Survival Kit . Lonely Planet Publications, Oakland CA 1996.
- Andrew Stewart: Antarctica. To Encyclopedia . McFarland and Co., London 1990 (2 volumes), pp. 394 and 1080.
- Fred G. Alberts (Ed.): Geographic Names of the Antarctic US National Science Foundation, Washington 1980.
