Which New Year's Eve event in London includes fireworks launched from the London Eye?

The London New Year's Eve fireworks are launched around the London Eye as part of London's annual midnight celebration. The display uses the landmark on the South Bank as a central visual feature.

The modern event is organized along the River Thames, with fireworks fired from barges and from points near the London Eye. Large crowds gather along official viewing areas, while the celebration is also broadcast widely. The display marks midnight in the United Kingdom's local time.

The London Eye opened to the public in 2000 and became one of the city's most recognizable landmarks. Its illuminated wheel provides a distinctive backdrop, but the wheel itself is not a ball-drop mechanism and does not descend at midnight.

London's celebration is sometimes mixed up with the city's other major public spectacles, such as the Lord Mayor's Show or the Notting Hill Carnival. Those events occur at different times of year and have different histories.