Weatherday: Wilkes Land

Local trad band Cathú, playing in Kilcullen Town Hall along with Paul Durney's German band Fleadh (2014).

A mostly dry and cloudy day with some sunny spells breaking through later.

Temperature up to 6deg in light breezes from the south.

On this day in 1840, Antarctica was sighted by the US Exploring Expedition led by Charles Wilkes and subsequently mapped as a separate continent.

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