Diamond jubilee beacons are lit around the world – in pictures

Australia's opposition leader, Tony Abbott, and the prime minister, Julia Gillard, light a beacon in Canberra Photograph: Andrew Taylor/Getty Images

Richard Teall feeds a beacon on top of Ben y Brackie in Pitlochry, Scotland Photograph: Russell Cheyne/Reuters

Edinburgh Castle at sunset Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PA

More than 300 people climbed to the summit of Slieve Donard in County Down for the lighting of a beacon Photograph: Jonathan Porter/Presseye

A beacon burns outside Westminster Abbey Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Segedunum Roman fort at Wallsend Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian

Mow Cop Castle near Kidsgrove Photograph: Andrew Yates/AFP/Getty Images

Riseley village in Bedfordshire Photograph: Heard InLondon/Demotix/Corbis

John Bradshaw (left), of the British high commission, helps light a beacon outside the Treetops hotel near Nyeri, in Kenya Photograph: Thomas Mukoya/Reuters

Owen Paterson, the Northern Ireland secretary, lights a beacon at Hillsborough Village, the royal family's official residence in County Down Photograph: Kelvin Boyes/Press Eye/PA

Jesmond parish church in Newcastle Photograph: David Whinham/Demotix/Corbis

The mayor of Windsor lights a beacon at the Long Walk near Windsor Castle Photograph: Kieran Doherty/Reuters

Fireworks are set off as a beacon is lit outside Buckingham Palace Photograph: Anthony Devlin/AFP/Getty Images