New Year’s Eve 2019: Fireworks, Sydney, Australia, around the world - NEWS.com.au

It’s the night of the year where dazzling 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 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 counted down to the city’s New Year’s Eve party.

A record amount of pyrotechnics as well as new fireworks effects and colours lit up the skyline for 12 minutes and dazzled the more than 1.5 million spectators who packed the harbour front and parks.

More than 8.5 tonnes of fireworks comprising more than 100,000 individual effects, 35,000 of them shooting comets, were 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 fired from five river barges between Victoria and Goodwill bridges.

MELBOURNE

More than 350,000 people swarmed into Melbourne’s CBD to catch a glimpse of 14 tonnes of fireworks which fired from the stroke of midnight to usher in 2019.

Saturn ring-shaped fireworks, and shooting star-style bursts to a throng of green, red and purple displays have lit up the city skyline spanning seven kilometres.

A thunderous roar rippled across the city as the sky sparkled, fireworks bursting into a rainbow of colours in more 36,500 effects fired from 22 CBD buildings for 10 minutes.

It had been synchronised to a soundtrack by Aboriginal Australian hip-hop artist Adam Briggs.

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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