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29 March 2024

Australian in world record with 1.2m X-Mas lights

Lights twinkle in a mall in Canberra, Australia where David Richards has set a Guinness World Record by stringing up almost 1.2 million Christmas lights in the center of the national capital. (AP)

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An Australian lawyer has set a world record by stringing up almost 1.2 million Christmas lights in the center of the national capital.

Guinness World Records on Friday confirmed that the 120 kilometers (75 miles) of multicolored wire strung in the shape of three interconnected giant, wrapped Christmas gifts in a downtown Canberra mall was the largest image made of LED lights.

The 1,194,380 twinkling bulbs arranged since Wednesday beat the previous record set in Shurtan in southern Uzbekistan by 181, 540 lights.

Lawyer David Richards assembled the Canberra light show with the help of an army of volunteers.

He also set a world record a year ago for the most Christmas lights on a residential property by cocooning his home with 502,165 bulbs.