The Ellingsøy Tunnel ( no, Ellingsøytunnelen) is a

subsea road tunnel An underwater tunnel is a tunnel which is partly or wholly constructed under the sea or a river. They are often used where building a bridge or operating a ferry link is unviable, or to provide competition or relief for existing bridges or ferry li ...

in Ålesund Municipality in

Møre og Romsdal Møre og Romsdal (; en, Møre and Romsdal) is a county in the northernmost part of Western Norway. It borders the counties of Trøndelag, Innlandet, and Vestland. The county administration is located in the town of Molde, while Ålesund is the ...

county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. The tunnel runs between the center of the city of Ålesund on the island of

Nørvøya Nørvøya or Nørve is an island in Ålesund Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is the largest of the islands containing the city center of Ålesund, the others being Aspøya and Heissa, located to the west. The island of Nør ...

and the village of

Hoffland Hoffland or Hovland is a village in Ålesund Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The village is located on the western end of the island of Ellingsøya, about northeast of the town of Ålesund and about west of the village of M ...

on the island of

Ellingsøya Ellingsøya or Ellingsøy is the northernmost island in Ålesund Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. With an area of , Ellingsøya is the second largest island in the municipality after Uksenøya. The island is located northeast o ...

. The long tunnel runs under the Ellingsøyfjorden. It is part of National Road 658 and was constructed as part of the

Vigra Fixed Link The Vigra Fixed Link ( no, Vigrasambandet), also known as the Ålesund Tunnels (), is a fixed link connecting the archipelago and municipality of Giske and the island of Ellingsøya to the mainland and the island city of Ålesund. It consists of ...

project, which connected several outlying islands to the city of Ålesund and the mainland of Norway. The tunnel opened in 1987 and it was a toll road until 25 October 2009. The three-lane tunnel has a vertical clearance of and it reaches a depth of below sea level. The steepest parts of the tunnel do not exceed an 8.5% grade. The Ellingsøy Tunnel has a corkscrew spiral under the Hoffland island to span vertical height.

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