Word: falster
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Course: 28 miles along the international ferry route from Gedser on the southern tip of Denmark's Falster Island to Nienhagen, Germany...
...this summer the Storstrøm bridge, even longer than that across the Little Belt, which will link Sjaelland (not Zealand) to the east coast of Fyen (not Fünen), viz.: the Storstrøm bridge connects Sjaelland to the north with a small island lying north of Falster on the direct line to Berlin over Gedser-Warnem...
Like strong blond spiders the Danes are spinning their islands and peninsula together with a network of bridges: one from Falster to Lolland. another in North Jutland from Aalborg to Norresundby. Two more connect Copenhagen with Amager Island. Though bridges are no novelty in the Baltic, Danes went wild with joy two years ago when His Majesty snipped a ribbon, opened Denmark's Little Belt Bridge, the longest and most important in Continental Europe (3,864 ft.), spanning Fünen, second largest island in the Danish group (Zealand is biggest) and Jutland. Though Danish motor roads are excellent...
...fish and butter, is a peninsula and cluster of islands. Largest of its islands is Zealand, on which is the capital, Copenhagen. To reach Copenhagen from Berlin an express train must first board a seagoing ferry at Warnemünde, take a 30-mile trip to the island of Falster.* An hour later the train must transship again for a two-mile ferry ride to Zealand. Last week Minister of Public Works J. F. N. Friis-Skotte introduced a bill to the Folketing to give travelers one less ferry to cross...
...total expenditure of about $7,500,000 he proposed to build three bridges, most important one to span the straits between Zealand and Falster. About two miles long, it would be the longest bridge in Europe.† The State would be reimbursed by an extra gasoline tax of one ore a liter (roughly, 1/5? a quart...