The Vardø Tunnel () is a
subsea road tunnel in
Vardø Municipality in
Finnmark
Finnmark (; ; ; ; ) is a counties of Norway, county in northern Norway. By land, it borders Troms county to the west, Finland's Lapland (Finland), Lapland region to the south, and Russia's Murmansk Oblast to the east, and by water, the Norweg ...
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 ...
. The long two-lane tunnel under the
Bussesundet strait connects the island of
Vardøya to the village of
Svartnes on the
Varanger Peninsula on the mainland. The tunnel is part of the
European Route E75 highway and it reaches a depth of below sea level. The tunnel opened in 1982 and was the first subsea tunnel in Norway.
King Olav V officially opened the tunnel on 16 August 1983.
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Vardø
1982 establishments in Norway
Roads within the Arctic Circle
Road tunnels in Finnmark
Subsea tunnels in Norway
Tunnels completed in 1982