Efjord Bridges
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The Efjord Bridges are three bridges that cross Efjorden in Nordland
Nordland
is a county in Norway in the North Norway region, bordering Troms in the north, Nord-Trøndelag in the south, Norrbottens län in Sweden to the east, Västerbottens län to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The county was formerly known as Nordlandene amt. The county administration is...

 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...

. They were opened in 1969.

Kjerringstraumen Bridge (Kjerringstraumen bru) is a suspension bridge
Suspension bridge
A suspension bridge is a type of bridge in which the deck is hung below suspension cables on vertical suspenders. Outside Tibet and Bhutan, where the first examples of this type of bridge were built in the 15th century, this type of bridge dates from the early 19th century...

. It is 551 metres long, the main span is 200 metres, and the maximum clearance to the sea is 18 metres. The bridge has 15 spans.

Mellastraumen Bridge (Mellastraumen bru) is 143 metres long. The maximum clearance to the sea is 15 metres.

Sørstraumen Bridge (Sørstraumen bru) is 162 metres long. The maximum clearance to the sea is 2 metres. (This bridge should not be confused with Sørstraumen Bridge
Sørstraumen Bridge
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 long, and the main span is .-See also:*List of bridges in Norway*List of bridges in Norway by length...

 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.)
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