Sørstraumen Bridge
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Sørstraumen Bridge is a cantilever bridge
that crosses the Sørstraumen in the inner part of the fjord Kvænangen
in Troms
county in Norway
. The bridge is 440 metres (1,443.6 ft) long, and the main span is 120 metres (393.7 ft).
Cantilever bridge
A cantilever bridge is a bridge built using cantilevers, structures that project horizontally into space, supported on only one end. For small footbridges, the cantilevers may be simple beams; however, large cantilever bridges designed to handle road or rail traffic use trusses built from...
that crosses the Sørstraumen in the inner part of the fjord Kvænangen
Kvænangen
Kvænangen is a municipality in Troms county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Burfjord. The European route E6 highway goes through the municipality and over the Sørstraumen Bridge, and most people stop at the mountain pass of Kvænangsfjellet to view the...
in Troms
Troms
or Romsa is a county in North Norway, bordering Finnmark to the northeast and Nordland in the southwest. To the south is Norrbotten Län in Sweden and further southeast is a shorter border with Lapland Province in Finland. To the west is the Norwegian Sea...
county in Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
. The bridge is 440 metres (1,443.6 ft) long, and the main span is 120 metres (393.7 ft).
See also
- List of bridges in Norway
- List of bridges in Norway by length
- List of bridges
- List of bridges by length