Somerset Bridge, Bermuda
Friday, 31st March 2006 by Alex Turnbull
This is the Somerset Bridge in Bermuda - which is apparently the smallest working drawbridge in the world! Wikipedia says the bridge:
consists of two cantilevered half-spans, separated by a 32-inch (80 cm) gap bridged by a thick timber panel. The panel is removed whenever a yacht wishes to pass beneath the bridge, allowing the unsailed mast to pass through the gap.
Some dude at Princeton (who's lucky enough to take family holidays in Bermuda) has a great river-level shot of this tiny sight.
Thanks to Sara.
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Alex has decided that his title will be Senior Vice President of Stuff.
The link for the “great river-level shot” is broken by an extra dot at the end.
http://www.princeton.edu/~jhalderm/pics/2000-08=bermuda/bridge.html
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At the airport at the other end of the island, there’s a good shot of a plane about three seconds from landing, right off the western end of the runway.
Er, river-level shot? That bridge doesn’t cross a river, that’s the ocean.
Hey, I love absent minded browsing. Nice shot of the bridge. It’s never used any more, but people get a kick out of it all the same. The trick is getting a boat underneath it though.
actually that’s not the Somerset Bridge, it’s one of the other bridges on the west side of the island
the Somerset Bridge can be seen here connecting Somerset Island and Bermuda Island View Placemark
Oops, on further inspection it seems that you’re right Aaron, thanks for noticing! Post updated.
I used to live there 🙂 I used to go over that bridge every time my relatives came to visit (they wanted to go to the dockyard).
Interesting but useless fact, when they were doing work on the bridge, they built a bridge to the side of it out of, for lack of a better term, a stack of black rocks with a paved road on top. Also, if you look at the water-level photo, the little square cut-out in the middle of the bridge is so sailboats can be directed underneath. I think its neat :/
Hi, can you pls confirm if there is any river in Burmuda island. This is question given in a geography session. thanx.
Hi there! I look it through on Google Earth and I don’t think there’s a river in Bermuda.