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Tibbitt to Contwoyto Winter Road is an annual ice road first built in 1982 to service mines and exploration activities in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut in Northern Canada. Between 400 and 600 km (250 and 370 mi) long, the road is said to be the world's longest heavy haul ice road and operates for eight to ten weeks starting in the last ...
The Wapusk Trail is a winter road that starts in Gillam, Manitoba, where Manitoba Provincial Road 280, between Thompson, Manitoba and Gillam, Manitoba, ends.At 752 kilometres (467 mi) in length, the trail is the longest seasonal road in the entire world. [1]
At km 4601 is the highest road outside the Himalayas with 5000 msal and the longest in South America. Interstate 90: 4,861 km (3,020 mi) United States: Seattle, Washington: Boston, Massachusetts: Longest Expressway. BR-101: 4,658 km (2,894 mi) Brazil: Touros-RN: São José do Norte-RS: Longest highway in Brazil. National Highway 44: 4,658 km ...
Each section will be 217 meters long (roughly half the length of the world’s largest container ship), 42 meters wide and 9 meters tall. Weighing in at 73,000 metric tons each, they will be as ...
This private winter road was once a way for trucks to drive to Nunavut from Yellowknife. The private winter road services a number of mines and worker lodgings in the region. The entire road is 605 km (376 mi) and is the world's longest heavy haul ice road. It is open between February and March each year.
The theory of the world’s “longest rail ride” originated when the Laos-China railway opened for business, linking Kunming and Vientiane – a missing link in the rails between Europe and ...
Ice road on Lake Saimaa in Finland Ice road between Oulunsalo and Hailuoto.This is the longest ice road in Finland. Truck on the former winter road between Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk Ice road, Sainte-Anne River, Quebec, Canada
A winter road is a seasonal road only usable during the winter, i.e. it has to be re-built every year. This road typically runs over land and over frozen lakes, rivers, swamps, and sea ice . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Segments of a winter road that cross an expanse of floating ice are also referred to as an ice road or an ice bridge .