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Sydney in Australia is the world’s first major city to ring in New Year 2019 marked with spectacular display of fireworks at Sydney Harbour Bridge.
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, according to local media report.
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, were fired over the harbour by midnight.
However, Samoa is always the first country to ring in the New Year. While New Zealand welcomed the New Year at about 11 am WAT, Samoa did about an hour earlier. This was followed by Australia at 2.00 pm WAT.
Stunning fireworks display welcomed the New Year 2019 at Sydney Harbour Bridge and in New Zealand, even as Auckland’s Sky Tower put on a huge show.
There are 39 different local times in use, which means it takes 26 hours for the entire world to enter the New Year.
If you are really adventurous (and really rich), you can just hop on a private jet to have a feel of the New Year twice or thrice in select different countries of your choice.