<p><br> Visitors scale the 440-foot-high steel arch of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, which offers unrivaled views of the city skyline.</p>

Harbour Bridge


Visitors scale the 440-foot-high steel arch of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, which offers unrivaled views of the city skyline.

Photograph by Atlantide Phototravel/Corbis

Sydney Lifestyle

See Sydney photos in this gallery from National Geographic’s Ultimate City Guide for Sydney.

Published January 7, 2010

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