Toppilansaari is a neighbourhood in the

Tuira area Tuira may refer to: *Tuira River The Tuira River is located in the Darién Province of eastern Panama. It flows into the Bay of San Miguel at the province capital of La Palma. It is the largest river in Panama, and one of its tributaries, th ...

in the city of Oulu,

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. It is located on the south side of the Toppilansalmi strait. Toppilansaari was separated from the Hietasaari district while it was rezoned to residential development in the early 2000s. The westernmost part of the neighbourhood was the location for the Finnish Housing Fair in 2005. The Möljä Bridge over the Toppilansalmi strait connects Toppilansaari with the

Toppila Toppila is a district of Oulu, Finland. It is bounded by the Toppilansalmi strait in the south and west, Rail transport in Finland, railway in the east and the Taskila district in the north. The Möljä Bridge over the Toppilansalmi strait connects ...

neighbourhood. The bridge was completed in 2012. The Toppilansaari has been an island before, but it has connected into Mustasaari island due to the

post-glacial rebound Post-glacial rebound (also called isostatic rebound or crustal rebound) is the rise of land masses after the removal of the huge weight of ice sheets during the last glacial period, which had caused isostatic depression. Post-glacial rebound ...

. The Toppila harbour used to occupy both sides of the Toppilansalmi Strait. The harbour has been closed for commercial traffic in 2012, but the activity has ceased since the 1990s. Toppilansaari has also been a historic villa area of which a few villas, like Villa Hannala has survived.

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