Sundøy Bridge

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The bridge seen from the mainland, the old ferrylanding in the foreground

Sundøy Bridge (Sundøybrua) is a cantilever bridge that connects Sundøya on the island of Alsten with the mainland in Nordland county in Norway. The bridge is 538 metres long, the main span is 298 metres, and the maximum clearance to the sea is 43.5 metres. The bridge has three spans.

Sundøy Bridge was opened on August 9, 2003. It cost 176 million kroner. The decision to spend such an amount of money on a bridge to a place with less than 150 inhabitants was disputed. However, Sundøya did not get connected to the mainland when the rest of Alsten did, following the opening of Helgeland Bridge in 1991. This was because mountains separated the two sides of the island with regard to the island's roads. Consequently the people at Sundøya thought it was only fair that they got their connection as well.

[edit] See also

• List of bridges in Norway
• List of bridges in Norway by length
• List of bridges
• List of bridges by length
• Helgeland Bridge

[edit] External links

• A page about Sundøy Bridge (in Norwegian)
• Links to more pages about and pictures of the bridge
• Sundøy Bridge in the Structurae database
• The World's Longest Tunnel Page (bridge section)