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The Tana Bridge () is a bridge that crosses the Tana River in
In December 2020, twelve metres (from the center) of the bridge, was removed permanently; the final demolishment of the bridge was done n first half of2021.
The old bridge was 220 metres long, and the main span is 194 metres.
The old bridge was opened in 1948. There was a predecessor bridge that was destroyed on November 6, 1944, as a consequence of the
Finnmark
Finnmark (; ; ; ; ) is a counties of Norway, county in northern Norway. By land, it borders Troms county to the west, Finland's Lapland (Finland), Lapland region to the south, and Russia's Murmansk Oblast to the east, and by water, the Norweg ...
, Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...
. It is located in a village also called ''Tana bru
, , or is the administrative centre of Deatnu-Tana Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The village lies on the western bank of the Tana River, along the European route E6 highway.
The village has a population (2023) of 743 which gives ...
''.
The bridge was opened for traffic on 15 September 2020. It is a 260 meter long cable-stayed bridge with a main span of 234 meters.
It is the only bridge over the lowest 100 km of the Tana River. One nickname ('new bridge') "Nybrua", was in use in 2020 when the village once had two bridges.
Previously, there have been other bridges named ''Tana Bridge''; one bridge was demolished, from late 2020 and into 2021. Previously, one bridge was demolished in 1944.
The bridge glows in different colours of light at night with GVA color-changing luminaires.
The bridge that existed from 1948 to 2020
In December 2020, twelve metres (from the center) of the bridge, was removed permanently; the final demolishment of the bridge was done n first half of2021.
The old bridge was 220 metres long, and the main span is 194 metres.
The old bridge was opened in 1948. There was a predecessor bridge that was destroyed on November 6, 1944, as a consequence of the Liberation of Finnmark
The Liberation of Finnmark was an Allied military operation lasting from 23 October 1944 until 26 April 1945, in which Soviet and Norwegian forces wrested away control of Finnmark, the northernmost county of Norway, from Germany. It began with ...
during World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
.
The first bridge was a wooden bridge opened in 1939. It was removed every autumn, because it could not handle the ice-melt flooding in spring. In the winter an ice road
An ice road or ice bridge is a human-made structure that runs on a frozen water surface (a river, a lake or a sea water expanse).Masterson, D. and Løset, S., 2011, ISO 19906: Bearing capacity of ice and ice roads, Proceedings of the 21st Int ...
was made.
See also
* Sami BridgeReferences
Related reading
*Chris Mann (2012) ''British Policy and Strategy Towards Norway, 1941-45'' (Palgrave Macmillan) Road bridges in Finnmark Bridges completed in 1948 Suspension bridges in Norway 1948 establishments in Norway Tana, Norway {{norway-bridge-stub