Rombaksfjord
| Rombaksfjord Rombaken |
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 The Rombaks Bridge from the north |
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| Waters | Ofotfjord | |
| Land mass | Scandinavian peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 28 ′ N , 17 ° 35 ′ E | |
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| width | 4 km | |
| length | 20 km | |
| Greatest water depth | 344 m | |
The Rombaksfjord or Rombaken is the innermost branch of the Ofotfjord in Norway .
geography
It is located in the municipality of Narvik in the Ofoten region in the province of Nordland , north and east of the port city of Narvik .
The fjord, which is surrounded by towering mountains, is around 20 km long and up to 344 m deep. At its confluence with the Ofotfjord it is about 1.4 km wide, at its widest point about 4 km. On the last 10 km from the Rombaksbrücke to the east, the Rombaksbotn, it is only about 1 km wide.
The European route 6 , coming from Narvik, runs along the south bank of the fjord, crosses it on the Rombaks Bridge and then continues north. On the north bank of the Rombaksfjord, it runs a few kilometers together with the European route 10 coming from Kiruna in northern Sweden and leading to Lofoten .
The Hålogaland Bridge , a suspension bridge over the confluence of the Rombaksford in the Ofotfjord, has shortened the route on the E 6 from Narvik to Bjerkvik and Harstad by 17 km and that from Narvik on the E 10 to Bjørnfjell by 5 km since its completion in December 2018 .
history
On April 13, 1940, during the second British counterattack on the port of Narvik, which was occupied by German naval units and mountain troops on April 9 in the course of the invasion of Norway , the last four of the ten German destroyers in the Rombaksfjord were self- sunk by their crews after they had lost their entire Had fired ammunition . The Wolfgang Zenker , the Bernd von Arnim and the Hans Lüdemann were put aground at the eastern end of the Rombaksbotn to rescue their crews, while the Georg Thiele took cover and in the Rombaksfjord the following British destroyers, consisting of the battleship HMS Warspite and nine destroyers, took over Association stayed for some time. After the Georg Thiele ran out of ammunition too, her crew set her aground on the south side of the fjord.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Halogaland Bridge opened in Norway. In: Euronews. December 10, 2018, accessed November 12, 2019 .