Dyrøy Bridge
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Dyrøy Bridge is a cantilever bridge
that crosses Dyrøysundet from the mainland to Dyrøya in Troms
county in Norway
. It was opened on August 29, 1994.
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 Dyrøysundet from the mainland to Dyrøya 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...
. It was opened on August 29, 1994.
See also
- List of bridges in Norway
- List of bridges in Norway by length
- List of bridges
- List of bridges by length
