North Cape Tunnel (Norwegian: Nordkapptunnelen) is a subsea road tunnel under Magerøysundet from the Norwegian mainland to Magerøya. The tunnel was built between 1993 and 1999, is 6,875 metres (22,556 ft) long, and reaches a depth of 212 metres (696 ft) below the sea level. Before the tunnel was built, a ferry carried the traffic across the sea between Kåfjord and Honningsvåg.
The tunnel takes its name from North Cape at the very north of Magerøya island. North Cape Tunnel is part of European route E69. As from 29 June 2012, there is no charge for passing through the tunnel. Before this date there was a toll of 145 NOK per car, plus an additional 47NOK per adult and 24NOK per child, per direction. The tunnel has anti-freezing gates (Norwegian: Kuldeport) which close the mouths of the tunnel in the winter to avoid freezing of leaking water. These gates open automatically when cars approach and are permanently open in the summer, when traffic is denser.
- Location, southern end: 70°53′30″N 25°41′00″E / 70.89167°N 25.6833333°E / 70.89167; 25.6833333
- Location, northern end: 70°57′00″N 25°42′20″E / 70.95°N 25.70556°E / 70.95; 25.70556
Famous quotes containing the words north, cape and/or tunnel:
“Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.”
—Philip Guedalla (1889–1944)
“The Great South Beach of Long Island,... though wild and desolate, as it wants the bold bank,... possesses but half the grandeur of Cape Cod in my eyes, nor is the imagination contented with its southern aspect.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It is the light
At the end of the tunnel as it might be seen
By him looking out somberly at the shower,
The picture of hope a dying man might turn away from,
Realizing that hope is something else, something concrete
You can’t have.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)