Dust storms, fireworks and a global pandemic: the Sydney Harbour Bridge’s 90th anniversary – in pictures
After 90 years, one of Australia’s best-known sights has only grown more visually captivating. Guardian Australia selects some of the Harbour Bridge’s best and most striking angles
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A blanket of fog envelopes Sydney Harbour, partially obscuring the city’s Harbour Bridge, 15 August, 2001.
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An aerial view of a boat sailing under the Sydney Harbour Bridge on 22 April, 2020.
Photograph: Ryan Pierse/Getty Images
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Pigeons are seen as the sun rises behind the Sydney Harbour Bridge as winds blow smoke from bushfires over the CBD, 12 November 2019.
Photograph: Steven Saphore/EPA
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The Sydney Harbour Bridge can be seen while commuters wait for trains at Circular Quay station, 2 December 2019.
Photograph: Steven Saphore/AAP
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Western Distributor freeway approaches to the Sydney Harbour Bridge are empty on 22 April 2020.
Photograph: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images
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Midnight fireworks explode over the Sydney Harbour Bridge during New Year’s eve celebrations, 31 December 2019.
Photograph: Lukas Coch/AP
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Empty staircases on the iconic Harbour Bridge with no visitors experiencing BridgeClimb Sydney on 8 May 2020.
Photograph: James D Morgan/Getty Images
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A security guard watches over a bike path through the Sydney Harbour Bridge, 13 April 2020.
Photograph: Joel Carrett/EPA
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Lightning over the Sydney Harbour Bridge, 14 April 2009.
Photograph: Jim Trifyllis/Newspix/Rex Feat
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People climb the Sydney Harbour Bridge during a BridgeClimb guided tour on 6 December, 2019.
Photograph: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images
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A ferry under the Sydney Harbour Bridge shrouded in fog, 30 June 2021.
Photograph: Mick Tsikas/EPA
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The Sydney Harbour Bridge seen through smoke haze from bushfires as a man fishes from a pier during hot weather in Sydney, 19 December 2019.
Photograph: Steven Saphore/AAP
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One man sits on a Sydney train service as it is about to cross the Harbour Bridge, 20 March 2020.
Photograph: James D Morgan/Getty Images
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Fireworks explode over the Sydney Harbour Bridge during the midnight display on New Year’s Eve, 1 January 2020.
Photograph: Hanna Lassen/Getty Images
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People eat breakfast at the Sydney Harbour Bridge in Central Sydney, 25 October 2009. Thousands of people attended the Breakfast on the Bridge event as part of the Crave festival, one month of food, art, comedy and outdoor fun.
Photograph: Daniel Munoz/Reuters
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People exercising past the Sydney Harbour Bridge as a torrential downpour lashed the city and other parts of New South Wales, 23 February 2022.
Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/EPA
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Crowds of more than 100,000 people took advantage of a perfect Sunday morning to walk across the Sydney Harbour Bridge in the ‘Walk for Reconciliation’ as part of Corroboree 2000, 28 May 2000.
Photograph: Dave Hunt/AAP
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A supermoon rises over the Sydney Harbour Bridge, 27 April 2021.
Photograph: Mark Baker/AP
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Yachts sail outside the Sydney Heads during the 2021 Sydney to Hobart race, starting at Sydney Harbour on 26 December 2021.
Photograph: Steve Christo - Corbis/Corbis/Getty Images
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A woman walks across the Sydney Harbour Bridge in driving rain and wind during the Covid-19 pandemic on 25 September 2020.
Photograph: James D Morgan/Getty Images
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Storm clouds are seen above the Sydney Opera House and the Harbour Bridge on 1 October 2021.
Photograph: Mark Evans/Getty Images
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The ‘Ballerina’ installation at Circular Quay on 9 June 2019, part of Vivid Sydney, an annual festival of light, music and ideas.
Photograph: NurPhoto/Getty Images
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A rainbow and rain clouds are seen over the Sydney Harbour Bridge on 25 June 2019.
Photograph: Ryan Pierse/Getty Images
