Oresund Bridge
Linking the countries of Sweden and Denmark is the Oresund Bridge which actually comprises a cable-stayed bridge, an artificial island (Peberholm) and a tunnel. The total length is 16km and is split over two levels (a railway is below the road). Marcus Rangell also added:
According to what I’ve read, the island is also a biological experiment to see how nature will develop on the island. Currently a bunch of plants have already spread to the island, some are very rare.
Thanks: Roland, Thomas, breakbeat, jensflorian, Marcus Rangell, Simone, Yann & Martin
Ah, now I was stumbling around this area just a few days ago and I saw this. Not knowing much about the structure itself I assumed that it was a bridge that was yet to be finished. Now I know better =)
There’s an urban legend floating around that misidentifies one of the bridges in the Hampton Roads area in Virginia as the Øresund bridge. Now if any of you folks get that item in your inbox, you have a link you can send them and say, “No, *this* is the bridge/tunnel between Sweden and Denmark.
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i thought that it connected the two countries????
As a biologist I find this idea that it is an experiment flawed. What is stopping someone from like tossing seeds out their window as they are driving by? I would think that seeds stuck to cars could also impact this biological experiment. Are there fences or armed guards patrolling the area…or maybe people of other nations are not like American’s who treat roadsides as their personal trash can.
It’s not in hi-res yet, but the Great Belt link is even more amazing than the Øresund bridge, and forms another part of the link between Scandinavia and the mainland.
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
Here the railway goes into a tunnel after the half-way island of Sprogø - this was originally a small, natural island, but it now has been expanded to many times its original size and is a nature reserve. The road goes over the world’s second longest suspension bridge.
I think the technology that makes it easy to set concrete under water has resulted in quite ugly structures (such as the Øresund bridge, which is largely just a concrete viaduct). But as it needed to span a wide navigation channel, the East Bridge of the Great Belt link captures the grace and beauty of earlier structures. http://www.copenhagenpictures.dk/grt_blt.html
Some young guy,
It **does** connect the countries! Are you confused by the tunnel part?
The Govinator: That’s actually part of the idea if I understood it correctly. Since it’s impossible to stop seeds to enter the island via cars and trains, they have this possibility to see how masscommunication today help in spreading plants IIRC.
This is so cool!!!
Birds spread seeds in their shit far easier than cars spread them with their tyres.
On the swedish side you can see some sort of a border crossing area (customs) with tens of driving lanes. Looks interesting.
That’s where you have to pay the toll! According to the website, it’s 235 DKK for cars (that’s nearly 22 GBP - makes the Severn bridge look like a bargain!)
The artificial island was called Peberholm (meaning “Pepper island”) as it is just south of the natural Saltholm (Salt island). Perhaps everyone else had already reliased that, but despite knowing the name Peberholm for a while, the significance has only just occurred to me!
at the end of the land part, it goes underwater!?!?!?!??!
joa ne, that was echt geil!
It was meant to be som recordbreaking bridge but the airport in Copenhagen was to near so they had do end it with a tunnel…