The Rombak Bridge () is a

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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 bridge crosses the

Rombaken or (or unofficially: ''Rombaksfjord'') is a fjord that branches off of the main Ofotfjorden in Narvik Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The fjord is about long and is surrounded by steep mountains, and the Narvik (town), town of Narvik ...

fjord near the town of Narvik. The bridge was opened in 1964. The main span is , and the maximum clearance to the sea is . The bridge was originally 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, but the road was in December 2018 re-routed further west over the new Hålogaland Bridge, a long

. The reason for that was to shorten the distance by ; the Rombak Bridge has a weight limit of , which is not sufficient for a modern highway, and that there is a danger of

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s on the road near the bridge. The Rombak Bridge is now on a county road. The bridge is not tolled, and when driving from Narvik to Kiruna in Sweden over the Rombak Bridge, there is no toll. The Hålogaland Bridge has a toll station, and there is one more along E10 on the north side of the fjord.

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*Pictures of the Rombak Bridge

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