Tunnels in Iceland

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There are eight tunnels in the Icelandic road system (as of September 2005). Tunnels in Iceland are usually built under mountains to prevent winter isolation of remote communities which would otherwise have to depend on high roads that often closed due to snow, to shorten distance between communities, and to increase road-safety by bypassing dangerous stretches of road. A tunnel under a fjord, the Hvalfjörður Tunnel (Hvalfjarðargöng), is among the longest underwater road tunnels in the world [1].

Name Length in metres Opening year Region
Breiðadals- og Botnsheiðar Tunnel 91201 1995 Westfjords
Fáskrúðsfjörður Tunnel 5850 2005 East
Hvalfjörður Tunnel 5770 1998 West
Múlagöng Tunnel 3400 1990 North
Almannaskarð Tunnel 1150 2005 East
Strákar Tunnel 800 1967 North
Oddskarð Tunnel 640 1977 East
Arnardalshamar Tunnel 30 1948 Westfjords

1 The tunnel has three branches that connect in a T junction inside the tunnel
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