It’s the sole night of the year where pyrotechnics are at their finest — and the fireworks around the world didn’t disappoint. Here’s how Australia — and the rest of the world — rang in the new year.
SYDNEY
Thunderstorms lashed Sydney and drenched New Year’s Eve crowds earlier on in the day, but the weather cleared for spectacular fireworks to light up the Harbour. Popular vantage points closed off early as hundreds of thousands of revellers count down to the city’s New Year’s Eve party.
More than 8.5 tonnes of fireworks comprising more than 100,000 individual effects, 35,000 of them shooting comets, will be fired over the harbour by midnight.
BRISBANE
Tens of thousands of people crammed into prime viewing locations across Brisbane to welcome 2019 on New Year’s Eve, with fireworks to be launched from four river locations.
The biggest party was held at South Bank, where people began staking out positions with deck chairs early on Monday.
More than 85,000 people visited the alcohol-free zone to watch the pyrotechnics, which were be fired from five river barges between Victoria and Goodwill bridges.
MELBOURNE
Thousands have packed into Yarra Park to glimpse the spectacle at 9.30pm on New Year’s Eve to mark 2019 and join the 350,000-plus crowd expected in the CBD. Bursts of yellow, pink and green soared into the clear Melbourne sky to “wows” from the revellers for more than five minutes.
AUCKLAND
In Auckland, tens of thousands gathered around Sky Tower as fireworks exploded from the top of the 328m structure.
Across the rest of New Zealand, thousands took to beaches and streets, becoming the first major nation in the world to usher in 2019, where fireworks boomed and crackled above city centres and harbours.
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