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Comment by thejosh | Hacker News Reader

I also love places that are named after someone and it's slightly amusing/horrifying.

Harold Holt was the Australian Prime Minister in the 1960's, and went for a swim and went missing (yes, there are many, MANY local conspiracies this :)). So what did we do? Named a swimming pool[0] after him (construction actually started before his death, I believe).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Holt_Memorial_Swimming_...

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... and the cold war era submarine communications base:

Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Communication_Station_Ha...

    It is generally agreed that Holt's disappearance was a simple case of an accidental drowning, but a number of conspiracy theories surfaced, most famously the suggestion that he was a spy from the People's Republic of China and had been collected by a Chinese submarine.

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Harold_Holt

If any country would commit to humor like this in large public works, it’s Australia

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