Atlanterhavsveien driving road map

by Sidney van den Boogaard

On this road the sea is never out of sight. Between Kårvåg and Vevang, Atlanterhavsveien – the Atlantic Ocean Road – skips from island to skerry over eight bridges in just over eight kilometres, hugging the waterline. Its signature is the Storseisundet bridge, 260 metres long and curved so steeply that from certain angles the road seems to end in thin air. On wild days, spray blows across the tarmac. It opened on 7 July 1989, its tolls were dropped in 1999, a decade ahead of schedule, and in 2005 it was named construction of the century. For the hallway of anyone who plans road trips around a coastline.

This work is part of the Petrolhead Roads collection: the world's finest driving and riding roads, from coastal routes and mountain roads to legendary ribbons of curves. Each road is drawn from the real route and finished in the same calm, graphic style, with the elevation profile and, along the bottom, the length, the road number and the facts that made the road famous.

The road is drawn from OpenStreetMap data (© OpenStreetMap contributors) and the profile from Copernicus elevation data. A great gift for anyone who would rather drive a great road than the motorway.