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In a place where the average daily temperature each year is 1.58 degrees Fahrenheit, you’ll find the prestigious McMurdo Station, AND ... wait for it … the world’s loneliest automatic teller machines.

McMurdo Station, a U.S. Antarctic research station established in 1956, is the , NASA says. And to keep up with its 250 to 1,000 residents’ monetary needs, Wells Fargo established the ATM around 2000.

“Our ATMs at McMurdo Station are , according to the Guinness Book of World Records,” Wells Fargo said. “In fact, they’re the only ones on the entire continent of Antarctica — kind of cool to say that.”

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David Parker, vice president of ATM Banking at Wells Fargo, told ATM Marketplace the money circulated by the ATMs is constantly recycled so there is no need for cash vendors to replenish the supply.

In an interview with needcoffee.com, Parker said a to perform preventative hardware maintenance on the ATM once every two years.

And although there are two ATMs, only one is in use at a time. Parker explained the logic saying, “The other is one that they can sort of cannibalize, if you will, for parts or spare things that they need to make the other one live and operational.”

The ATMs are a staple in the thriving scientific community and remain a fascinating concept today.

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