The Efjord Bridges () are a series of three bridges that cross the wide Efjorden in

Narvik Municipality () is the third-largest List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Nordland Counties of Norway, county, Norway, by population. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Narvik (town), town of Narvik. Some of the notable villag ...

Nordland Nordland (; , , , ) is one of the three northernmost Counties of Norway, counties in Norway in the Northern Norway region, bordering Troms in the north, Trøndelag in the south, Norrbotten County in Sweden to the east, Västerbotten County to t ...

county,

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. The bridges are a part of the

European route E6 European route E6 (, , or simply E6) is the main north–south thoroughfare through Norway as well as the west coast of Sweden. It is long and runs from the southern tip of Sweden at Trelleborg, into Norway and through almost all of the countr ...

highway and they were opened in 1969. The three bridges connect the mainland sides of the fjord via two small islands in the

fjord In physical geography, a fjord (also spelled fiord in New Zealand English; ) is a long, narrow sea inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by a glacier. Fjords exist on the coasts of Antarctica, the Arctic, and surrounding landmasses of the n ...

. The easternmost bridge is the Kjerringstraumen Bridge, then comes the Mellastraumen Bridge, and finally the Sørstraumen Bridge. *The Kjerringstraumen Bridge () is a

suspension bridge A suspension bridge is a type of bridge in which the deck (bridge), deck is hung below suspension wire rope, cables on vertical suspenders. The first modern examples of this type of bridge were built in the early 1800s. Simple suspension bridg ...

. It is long, the main span is , and the maximum clearance to the sea is . The bridge has 15 spans. This bridge connects the mainland on the east side of the fjord to the island of ''Storøya''. It's the longest of the three bridges. *The Mellastraumen Bridge () is long. The maximum clearance to the sea is . This small bridge connects the islands of ''Storøya'' and ''Halvardøya''. This is the smallest of the bridges. *The Sørstraumen Bridge () is long. The maximum clearance to the sea is . This bridge connects the tiny island of Halvardøya to the mainland on the western side of the fjord.. Retrieved 2012-05-18. (This bridge should not be confused with the Sørstraumen Bridge in

Troms Troms (; ; ; ) is a Counties of Norway, county in northern Norway. It borders Finnmark county to the northeast and Nordland county in the southwest. Norrbotten Län in Sweden is located to the south and further southeast is a shorter border with ...

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