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Christmas day 1958 at Wilkes Station, Antarctica. Wilkes Station was one of seven U.S. research stations built for the International Geophysical Year (IGY), 1957-1958. The U.S. turned Wilkes Station over to Australia in 1959. Several years later Australia built a new facility 2 km away and renamed it Casey Station.
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