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Ranging from 10 minutes to 3.5 hours (from lofoten to bodø, longest I've taken, but there might be other longer routes). You often end up going on multiple fer
by pi-rat 9y ago
Ranging from 10 minutes to 3.5 hours (from lofoten to bodø, longest I've taken, but there might be other longer routes).
You often end up going on multiple ferries on a trip, and timing ferries is an art ;)
If you want to travel between Bergen and Stavanger (A regular route for many people between two major cities on the south-west coast - along European Route E39 - total 5h travel time) you'll hit two ferries [2] - Halhjem->Sanvikvåg (40 min) and Arsvågen->Mortavika (22 min). In the past you'd hit 3 ferries, but one was replaced by one of the world's deepest and longest subsea tunnels[3].
A popular scenic route along Helgelandskysten has 6 ferries[4].
Amount of ferries required for a trip has been slowly dropping as we try to tunnel and bridge the most trafficked routes (ex: one of the world's longest suspension bridges - the Hardanger Bridge[5]). However, some of our fjords are really wide and over 1000 meters deep, I guess ferries are here to stay as building infrastructure is really hard in this country :)
[1]: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Bergen/Stavanger/@59.6316846,5.2922945,7.95z/am=t/data=!4m18!4m17!1m5!1m1!1s0x46390d4966767d77:0x9e42a03eb4de0a08!2m2!1d5.3220544!2d60.3912628!1m5!1m1!1s0x463a3549dd29f795:0xad7aeb21b80a9259!2m2!1d5.7331074!2d58.9699756!3e0!6m3!1i0!2i2!3i0 https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Bergen/Stavanger/@59.6316846...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_route_E39#The_E39_Ferries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_route_E39#The_E39_Fer...
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bømlafjord_Tunnel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bømlafjord_Tunnel
[4]: https://www.nasjonaleturistveger.no/en/routes/helgelandskysten https://www.nasjonaleturistveger.no/en/routes/helgelandskyst...
[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardanger_Bridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardanger_Bridge