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This US naval communications station which was named after an Australian PM mysteriously went missing and was never seen again
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this post was submitted on 06 Jan 2026
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The PM disappeared whilst swimming (and there was a conspiracy theory that he had been a spy from China and was picked up by a submarine before the net closed in). If the communication station also mysteriously disappeared, that would be quite a coincidence.
The US did name a warship after Holt, though. It served for a few decades, then was decommissioned and sunk as a target in exercises.
Us Aussies where far kinder to him we named a swimming pool after him