Héðinsfjarðargöng

Héðinsfjarðargöng
Tunnel portal near Siglufjördur 2010
use	Road traffic
traffic connection	Siglufjarðarvegur
place	Siglufjörður , Ólafsfjörður
length	10.572 km
vehicles per day	720
Number of tubes	1
construction
start of building	2006
completion	2010
business
operator	Vegagerðin
release	October 2, 2010
Héðinsfjarðargöng
on the Tröllaskagi peninsula
location
Coordinates
Portal in Siglufjörður	66 ° 7 ′ 35 "  N , 18 ° 53 ′ 28"  W.
West portal in Héðinsfjörður	66 ° 6 ′ 24 ″  N , 18 ° 49 ′ 31 ″  W.
East portal in Héðinsfjörður	66 ° 6 ′ 7 "  N , 18 ° 48 ′ 45"  W.
Ólafsfjörður	66 ° 4 ′ 23 "  N , 18 ° 40 ′ 22"  W.

 Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

The Héðinsfjarðargöng are road tunnel in the northeast of Iceland on the peninsula Tröllaskagi .

With the direct road connection through Siglufjarðarvegur , the distance between Ólafsfjörður and Siglufjörður is only 17 km. Before this tunnel, the route of Ólafsfjarðarvegurs over the Lágheiði plateau was about 60 km longer. And if this route was impassable due to the weather, it was even necessary to drive 230 km on the ring road .

The new connection consists of two tunnels. The section between Siglufjörður and Héðinsfjörður has been broken since March 2009 and is 3.7 kilometers long. In the uninhabited Héðinsfjörður a 600 m short road runs, which then leads through the 6.9 km long tunnel (breakthrough in April 2009) to Ólafsfjörður. The specified length results from the access roads. The roads and the tunnels are two-lane and opened on October 2, 2010.

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  Tunnel portal at Ólafsfjördur

See also

• Tunnel in Iceland

Web links

• Héðinsfjarðargöng near Vegagerðin ( isl .; PDF file; 4.89 MB)
• Site plan (PDF; 216 kB)
• Tunnel opened on October 2, 2010 ( isl. )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jarðgöng á vegakerfinu. Retrieved January 11, 2020 (Icelandic). 
2. ↑ Ólafsfjörður-Siglufjörður. Retrieved January 10, 2020 (Icelandic).