Harbour City said the duck was being deflated for a routine inspection and repairs after exposure to heavy waves in the harbor.
"The competition is very fierce here, " says Andrew Yeung of Harbour City, which spent several hundred thousand dollars to host the duck.
Perhaps unsurprisingly for a city that loves to shop, the duck was brought over as a promotion by Harbour City, a shopping mall.
Two hours later, the huge crowds around the harbour in the Australian city of Sydney watched as seven tonnes of fireworks lit up the famous landmarks of the Harbour Bridge and the Opera House to a soundtrack co-written by Australian singer Kylie Minogue.
More than 1.5 million people gathered around Sydney harbour to watch the city's famous firework display.
The festival celebrates Bristol's heritage, the city centre harbour and waterfront areas as well as its artistic community and green credentials.
The Flemings harbour a special grievance about the city, for it was once predominantly Flemish, and some Flemings still hope it may yet be the capital of an independent state of Flanders.
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Sydney's summer sun has disappeared under a blanket of smoke so thick at times that iconic structures such as the Sydney Opera House and the harbour bridge could not be seen from the city centre, and flights have had to be diverted to other places.
The decision to use Darwin (a city more heavily bombed than Pearl Harbour in World War Two) as a base for 2500 Marines and support staff represents the biggest U.S. deployment to Australia since the war with the arrangement officially ratified during a visit to Australia by U.S. President, Barak Obama.
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The Finzels Reach scheme is on the former Courage Brewery site alongside the Floating Harbour and between Castle Street and Victoria Street in the city centre.
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The harbour pool at Islands Brygge is one of four, centre city summer pools.
Today, it is a famously laid-back city that girdles a comely, Sydney-pattern harbour.
It was meant to have been sited at Belfast City Hospital but instead opted for a building in the harbour estate.
At the time of the attack by the Schleswig-Holstein - which was moored in the Polish harbour on a friendship visit - Gdansk was known as the free city of Danzig.
Located on a peninsula in Kanagawa Prefecture in central Japan, Miura City developed as a military port on the Pacific and a harbour providing shelter to passing ships.
Last month, opposition peers backed a move to ensure the panel's City Code on mergers and takeovers would provide a "safe harbour" for people accused by the FSA of market abuse.
Money has been invested in Belfast Harbour to ensure it can cope with the increasingly large vessels sailing into the city, including the latest arrival, the 113, 000-tons Emerald Princess.
With the Opera House to our right and the Harbour Bridge straight in front of us we were in the very heart of the city, and yet no one could see us from our darkened perch.
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