The Kjellingstraumen Bridge ( no, Kjellingstraumen bru or Kjellingstraumbrua) 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 ...

that crosses the Kjellingsundet strait at the mouth of the

Beiar Fjord Beiar Fjord ( no, Beiarfjorden or Beiaren) is a fjord in Nordland, Norway. The fjord lies mostly within the municipality of Beiarn, but the westernmost part of the fjord lies in Gildeskål municipality. It has a length of about . The Norwegian ...

Gildeskål Municipality Gildeskål is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Nordland Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Bodø Region and the Districts of Norway, traditional district of Salten. The administrative centre of the municipali ...

Nordland Nordland (; smj, Nordlánnda, sma, Nordlaante, sme, Nordlánda, en, Northland) is a county in Norway in the Northern Norway region, the least populous of all 11 counties, bordering Troms og Finnmark in the north, Trøndelag in the south, N ...

county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. The long bridge carries Norwegian County Road 17. The bridge was opened in 1975 and the longest span is .. Retrieved 2019-01-31. Noorwegen 093

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A picture of the Kjellingstraumen Bridge
Gildeskål Road bridges in Nordland Bridges completed in 1975 Suspension bridges in Norway 1975 establishments in Norway Norwegian County Road 17 Roads within the Arctic Circle {{norway-bridge-stub