Austre Åmøy Chapel (Norwegian: Austre Åmøy kapell) is a chapel of the Church of Norway in Stavanger Municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is located on the eastern part of the small island of Åmøy. It is an annex chapel in the Mosterøy parish which is part of the Tungenes prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Stavanger.
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Åmøy is an island in Stavanger Municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The 5.3-square-kilometre island lies just north of the city of Stavanger in a group of islands. The islands of Sokn and Bru both lie to the west of Åmøy and the islands of Mosterøy and Rennesøy lie to the north, and the island of Hidle lies to the east.
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Vestre Åmøy Chapel is a chapel of the Church of Norway in Stavanger Municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is located on the western end of the small island of Åmøy. It is an annex chapel in the Mosterøy parish which is part of the Tungenes prosti in the Diocese of Stavanger. The white, wooden chapel was built in a long church style in 1953 using designs by an unknown architect. The chapel seats about 80 people. The building was renovated in 1980.
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Ryfast is a subsea tunnel system in Rogaland county, Norway. The tunnel system is part of the Norwegian National Road 13, and it runs between the city of Stavanger in Stavanger Municipality, under a large fjord, and ends at Solbakk in Strand Municipality.
When the last section was drilled on 26 October 2017, Ryfast became the longest undersea road tunnel in the world, with its 14.3-kilometre length greater than the Eysturoyartunnilin and Sandoyartunnilin in the Faroe Islands at 11.2 kilometres and 10.8 kilometres respectively, the Tokyo Bay Tunnel in Japan at 9.6 kilometres, and the Shanghai Yangtze River Tunnel at nine kilometres in China. It is also currently the world's deepest subsea tunnel, reaching a maximum depth of 292 metres below sea level.
The project was approved by the Norwegian Parliament on 12 June 2012, and construction began in the spring of 2013. The cost of Ryfast is estimated to 5.22 billion kr. The tunnel system replaced the ferry route between Stavanger and Tau. A large part of the cost is paid by road tolls. There are as of 2022 separate tolls for the Ryfylke Tunnel and for Hundvåg Tunnel, costing 179 NOK for a car without special agreement to pass both as of 2022.
The tunnel system consists of two subsea tunnels:
Ryfylke Tunnel, 14,400 metres, running from the island of Hundvåg to just south of the village of Tau in Strand municipality on the other side of the fjord. This tunnel reduced travel time between the Northern Jæren and Ryfylke districts in Rogaland county.
Ryfylke officially opened to traffic at noon on 30 December 2019.
Hundvåg Tunnel, 5,500 metres, running from the city of Stavanger to the island of Hundvåg, with a connection to the smaller island of Buøy. This tunnel relieved congestion on the Stavanger City Bridge.
While the first section of Hundvåg was opened for a celebration in December 2019, the official opening for vehicles was delayed to 22 April 2020 due to extra technical testing, which was slowed due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway.
The Ryfast tunnel system was built at the same time as the 3,700-metre Eiganes Tunnel, which was constructed from a similar starting point as the Hundvåg, under the city of Stavanger, but stays in the city rather than continuing undersea. The Eiganes tunnel, like the Hundvåg tunnel, opened on 22 April 2020.
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The Ryfylke Tunnel is an undersea road tunnel in Rogaland county, Norway. It is part of the Norwegian National Road 13 running between Stavanger and Ryfylke under the Horgefjord. The tunnel is part of the Ryfast project. It is 14.4 kilometres long and is currently the world's longest subsea road tunnel, and the deepest tunnel of any kind. Both records are expected to be surpassed by Rogfast, which is projected to open in 2033.
The tunnel is designed for 10,000 vehicles per day and is built with one tube for each traffic-direction, and two vehicular lanes in each tube. The entrance on the Ryfylke side is located about one kilometre north of Solbakk in Strand Municipality. The entrance on the "city side" is on Hundvåg island in Stavanger Municipality. Construction began in 2013, and the tunnel opened on 30 December 2019. A half marathon was held in the tunnel on 5 October 2019.
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HNoMS Æger was a Sleipner-class destroyer launched at Karljohansvern naval shipyard in Horten in 1936. The Sleipner class was part of a Norwegian rearmament scheme started as war became ever more likely in the 1930s. When the Germans invaded Norway on 9 April 1940, Æger intercepted and sank the clandestine German supply ship Roda. She was shortly afterwards attacked and sunk by German bombers, claiming two of the attacking aircraft with her anti-aircraft armament before being taken out of action by a heavy bomb. This makes her the first naval ship sunk by aeroplane in hostility.
The wooden chapel was built in a long church style in 1904 using designs by the architect Jæger. The chapel seats about 120 people.