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There are proposals of fixed links between Sweden and Finland. A tunnel could be built between Sweden and Åland, about 50 km (30 mi) long, and 100–200 m (330–660 ft) deep, with the lowest depth around Märket, a little detour. The area between Åland and Finland is shallow with many islands, able to be connected with bridges - some of ...
The Øresund or Öresund Bridge [6] is a combined railway and motorway cable-stayed bridge across the Øresund strait between Denmark and Sweden.It is the second longest bridge in Europe with both roadway and railway combined in a single structure, running nearly 8 kilometres (5 miles) from the Swedish coast to the artificial island Peberholm in the middle of the strait.
a bridge–tunnel carrying monorail Great Belt Fixed Link: 1997 Denmark Zealand and Funen Great Belt: includes a railway tunnel, bridge–tunnel transition uses natural island Øresund Bridge: 2000 Denmark/Sweden Copenhagen and Malmö: Øresund/Öresund: includes a railway tunnel Shanghai Yangtze River Tunnel and Bridge: 2009 China
Name Length (m) Span(m) Type of traffic Opened Øresund Bridge: 7 845; 5300 m in Sweden: 490: Road/Railway: 2000 Öland Bridge: 6 072: 130: Road: 1972 Igelsta Bridge
Denmark (Zealand) seen from the Swedish (Scania) side of Øresund Øresund Bridge from the air in September 2015. Øresund or Öresund (UK: / ˌ ɜːr ə ˈ s ʊ n d /, US: / ˈ ɜːr ə s ʌ n,-s ʊ n d, ˈ ɔːr ə s ʊ n d /; [1] [2] [3] Danish: Øresund [ˈøːɐˌsɔnˀ]; Swedish: Öresund [œːrɛˈsɵnːd]), [4] commonly known in English as the Sound, [5] is a strait which forms the ...
This list of tunnels in Sweden includes any road, rail or waterway tunnel in Sweden. Name Location Type Tubes Length (km) Kungsträdgården-Hjulsta: ... City Tunnel ...
It has a 7.8 km (4.8 mi) bridge, an artificial island in the middle of the Øresund strait, and a 4 km (2.5 mi) tunnel nearest to Denmark. A bridge could not be built there for two reasons: height restrictions imposed by adjacent Copenhagen International Airport (the route's path passes the ends of some of the runways; the minimum practical ...
Fehmarn is connected with the German mainland by the Fehmarn Sound Bridge, and Lolland is connected by a tunnel and bridges with Zealand via the island of Falster. Zealand in turn is connected with the Swedish mainland via the Øresund Bridge. There is also a fixed connection between Zealand and Germany via the Great Belt Bridge to Funen and ...