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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, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2014. (AP Photo/AAP Image, Alan Porritt)
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An Australian lawyer David Richards 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 ever image made of LED lights.
Lawyer David Richards
assembled the Canberra light show with the help of an army of volunteers and
powers it with electricity donated by a local power company.
He set a Guinness World
Record a year ago for the most Christmas lights on a residential property by
cocooning his Canberra home with 502,165 bulbs.
However, traffic snarls
in his neighborhood created by 75,000 sightseers who visited the display over
four weeks made it difficult for his family to get to and from their home.
"I couldn't do it
again to my neighbors or my family," Richards said, explaining the move to
the city center.
The latest light show
will be open to the public free of charge from Friday until New Year's Eve.
Visitors to the 2013
light show donated 138,000 Australian dollars ($117,000) to a local Canberra
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome counselling and support service.
Richards said he expects
donations to the SIDS and Kids ACT charity will be higher with the bigger and
more spacious display.
The 1,194,380 twinkling
bulbs arranged since Wednesday beat the previous record set in Shurtan in
southern Uzbekistan by 181,540 lights.
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