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New Zealand's Auckland Welcomes the New Year 2025 With Fireworks
The Statesman Siliguri
|January 01, 2025
Countries in the South Pacific Ocean were the first to ring in the New Year, with midnight in New Zealand striking 18 hours before the ball drop in Times Square in New York
Auckland has become the first major city to welcome 2025, with thousands of revelers counting down to the new year and cheering at colorful fireworks launched from New Zealand's tallest structure, Sky Tower, and a spectacular downtown light show.
Thousands also thronged to downtown or climbed the city's ring of volcanic peaks for a fireworks vantage point, and a light display recognizing Auckland's Indigenous tribes.
It follows a year marked by protests over Māori rights in the nation of 5 million.
This story is from the January 01, 2025 edition of The Statesman Siliguri.
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