The Nærøysund Bridge () is a
suspension bridge
A suspension bridge is a type of bridge in which the deck (bridge), deck is hung below suspension wire rope, cables on vertical suspenders. The first modern examples of this type of bridge were built in the early 1800s. Simple suspension bridg ...
that crosses the
Nærøysundet strait between the islands of
Marøya and
Inner-Vikna in
Nærøysund Municipality
Nærøysund is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Namdalen. The municipality was established on 1 January 2020 after the mer ...
in
Trøndelag
Trøndelag (; or is a county and coextensive with the Trøndelag region (also known as ''Midt-Norge'' or ''Midt-Noreg,'' "Mid-Norway") in the central part of Norway. It was created in 1687, then named Trondhjem County (); in 1804 the county was ...
county,
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...
. It is located about south of the town of
Rørvik. Together with the
Marøysund Bridge, it connects the islands of Vikna to the mainland. The Nærøysund Bridge is long, the main span is , and the maximum clearance to the sea is . The bridge has 17
spans. The Nærøysund Bridge was opened in 1981, when it briefly held the title of the world's longest cable-stay bridge.
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Road bridges in Trøndelag
Bridges completed in 1981
Suspension bridges in Norway
1981 establishments in Norway
Nærøy
Nærøysund
Vikna
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