The Måløy Bridge () is a

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Kinn Municipality Kinn is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It was established on 1 January 2020. It is in the traditional districts of Nordfjord and Sunnfjord. The municipality is the only non-contiguous municipality in Norway since the municipality of ...

Vestland Vestland is a Counties of Norway, county in Norway. The county is located in Western Norway, and its administrative centre is Bergen, where the executive and political leadership is based. The County governor (Norway), County Governor is based in ...

county,

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. The bridge connects the village area of Degnepoll on the mainland and the town of

Måløy Måløy () is a List of towns and cities in Norway, town in the List of municipalities of Norway, municipality of Kinn in Vestland county, Norway. It is located on the southeastern side of the Vågsøy (island), island of Vågsøy, about northea ...

on the island of Vågsøy. The bridge carries Norwegian national road 15 over the Måløystraumen

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and Måløy island. The bridge is long, the longest spans are , and the maximum clearance to the sea is . In total, the bridge has 34 spans. Construction started in 1971, and it was officially opened by

King Olav V Olav V (, ; born Prince Alexander of Denmark; 2 July 1903 – 17 January 1991) was King of Norway from 1957 until his death in 1991. Olav was born at Sandringham House in England, the only child of Prince Carl of Denmark and Princess Maud of Wa ...

on 11 July 1974, although the bridge was actually opened for traffic in December 1973. King Olav came to the opening by ship, returning from a visit to

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. The opening of the bridge had to be postponed for a day because the

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got delayed by bad weather while at sea. The Måløy Bridge was the longest bridge in Norway at the time of its opening. It cost to construct and was a

toll bridge A toll bridge is a bridge where a monetary charge (or '' toll'') is required to pass over. Generally the private or public owner, builder and maintainer of the bridge uses the toll to recoup their investment, in much the same way as a toll road ...

until 1984. The bridge is built to stand

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up to , however vehicles can't stand anything near that. There are boards on each side of the bridge showing the amount of wind, and the bridge has been closed several times because of strong winds.

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A page about the history of the bridge

A picture of the bridgeWebcam at the bridge
Bridges in Vestland Bridges completed in 1973 Cantilever bridges Kinn 1973 establishments in Norway Former toll bridges in Norway {{norway-bridge-stub

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