The Valderøy Tunnel ( no, Valderøytunnelen) is a
subsea road tunnel which runs between the islands 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 ...
(in
Ålesund Municipality
Ålesund () sometimes spelled Aalesund in English, is a list of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Møre og Romsdal counties of Norway, County, Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway, traditional district of Sunnmøre and the centr ...
) and
Valderøya
Valderøya or Valderøy is an island off the west coast of Norway. It is part of Giske Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county. The island is connected to the city of Ålesund to the south via the Valderøy Tunnel to the island of Ellingsøy ...
(in
Giske Municipality
Giske is an island municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The municipality lies north-northwest of the town of Ålesund in the traditional district of Sunnmøre. The municipal centre is Valderhaugstrand. Other population centres i ...
) in
Møre og Romsdal 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 the ...
. The long tunnel is part of Norwegian National Road 658. The 3-lane wide tunnel has a maximum height of . The tunnel reaches a maximum depth of below sea level.
It was built in 1987 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 o ...
project. It was a toll road until 25 October 2009.
References
Subsea tunnels in Norway
Road tunnels in Møre og Romsdal
Giske
Buildings and structures in Ålesund
1987 establishments in Norway
Tunnels completed in 1987
Former toll tunnels
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