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167 m (548 feet) Width. 9.80 m (32 feet) History. Opened. 1888, restored 1939 and 2006. Location. The Queen Emma Bridge (Dutch: Koningin Emmabrug; Papiamento: Brùg di Ponton, Brùg di Punda) is a pontoon bridge across St. Anna Bay on Curaçao island in the Dutch Caribbean. It connects the Punda and Otrobanda quarters of the capital city ...
Otrobanda and Rif Fort are in the foreground, while the Queen Emma Bridge is the pontoon bridge in the center, with the colorful buildings of Willemstad in the background. Otrobanda is one of the historic quarters of Willemstad , located at the southwest side of the city, in Curaçao , a Lesser Antilles island in the Dutch Caribbean .
It was used until January 1929, when a toll-free bridge of concrete and steel replaced it at a cost of $600,000. Once considered the longest pontoon bridge in the world at 2,150 feet, its original construction cost $35,000. The original reason for the bridge was the hauling of cotton bales considered vital to the railroad that owned it.
A pontoon bridge (or ponton bridge), also known as a floating bridge, uses floats or shallow- draft boats to support a continuous deck for pedestrian and vehicle travel. The buoyancy of the supports limits the maximum load that they can carry. Most pontoon bridges are temporary and used in wartime and civil emergencies.
Willemstad (/ ˈwɪləmstɑːt, ˈvɪl -/ WIL-əm-staht, VIL-, Dutch: [ˈʋɪləmstɑt] ⓘ; Papiamento: [wiləmˈstad]; lit. ' William Town') is the capital and largest city of Curaçao, an island in the southern Caribbean Sea that is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It was the capital of the Netherlands Antilles prior ...
The Queen Emma Bridge, a 168 metres (551 ft) long pontoon bridge, connects pedestrians between the Punda and Otrobanda districts. [141] This swings open to allow the passage of ships to and from the port. [142] The bridge was originally opened in 1888 and the current bridge was installed in 1939. [143]
Queen Juliana Bridge. Koningin Julianabrug is a four-lane road bridge across St. Anna Bay in Willemstad, the capital of Caribbean island country Curaçao, which is part of The Kingdom of The Netherlands. The bridge is named after Juliana of the Netherlands. While under construction, the eastern part of the bridge collapsed in 1967 killing ...
To the northeast in Curacao, the passing hurricane destroyed the island harbor's fortifications. [14] A seawall near the entrance to Sint Anna harbor suffered partial collapse, while a pontoon bridge linking both sides of the harbor was completely destroyed.