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.

On the north edge of the station there is a sign identifying Waterboat Point as an official historic site under the Antarctic Treaty.

Lester, had been part of the British Imperial Expedition, but their particular project, which involved flying a number of aircraft to the South Pole, was aborted.

Their time was not wasted, however, because Bagshawe wrote the first scientific study of penguin breeding development.