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Lernacken

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Lernacken is a mostly artificial cape in the Öresund, the sound between Denmark and Sweden. Lernacken is located in the southwest of Malmö (Skåne) between the suburbs Bunkeflostrand and Limhamn. The area lacks mostly of vegetation, the sparse vegetation consists mostly from shrubs and small trees. Since the early 20th century overburden materials from the nearby limestone quarry Limhamn were deposited. The material consists mostly from siltstone and flint, which contains fossils. Typical fossils are belemnites, crinoids and several kinds of flint nodules. According to the SGU (Geological Survey of Sweden) is the age of the paleozoic rocks 65.5–61.1 Ma. The overburden was transported with two narrow-gauge railway, which were build only for this purpose. Later in the 20th century were also industrial wastes deposited. Very important for the international traffic is the toll-station on Lernacken, where fees for the use of the Öresund Bridge must paid, no matter if the traffic comes from Danmark or Sweden. Because of the construction of the bridge environmental movements demonstrated on Lernacken the "Stoppa bron" (Stop the bridge) movement was well known. 1952 was a lighthouse build on Lernacken which operated until the inauguration of the Öresund Bridge in 2000. Today, prominent on Lernacken is the sculpture Movement meter for Lernacken which was built in 2000.The area of Lernacken suffered from a severe anthropogenic modification, nevertheless it's now part of the Bunkeflo Strandängar nature reserve. Within this area are living around 450 species of birds, amphibian and insects. Most prominent bird in this area is the Northern lapwing.

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The Øresund or Öresund Bridge is a combined railway and motorway bridge across the Øresund strait between Denmark and Sweden. It is the second longest bridge in Europe with both roadway and railway combined in a single structure, running nearly 8 kilometres (5 miles) from the Swedish coast to the artificial island Peberholm in the middle of the strait. The crossing is completed by the 4-kilometre (2.5 mi) Drogden Tunnel from Peberholm to the Danish island of Amager. The bridge connects the road and rail networks of the Scandinavian Peninsula with those of Central and Western Europe. A data cable also makes the bridge the backbone of Internet data transmission between central Europe and Sweden. The international European route E20 crosses via road, the Øresund Line via railway. The construction of the Great Belt Fixed Link (1988–1998), connecting Zealand to Funen and thence to the Jutland Peninsula, and the Øresund Bridge have connected Central and Western Europe to Sweden by road and rail. The bridge was designed by Jørgen Nissen and Klaus Falbe Hansen from Ove Arup and Partners, and Niels Gimsing and Georg Rotne.The justification for the additional expenditure and complexity related to digging a tunnel for part of the way, rather than raising that section of the bridge, was to avoid interfering with air traffic from the nearby Copenhagen Airport, to provide a clear channel for ships in good weather or bad, and to prevent ice floes from blocking the strait. Construction began in 1995, with the bridge opening to traffic on 1 July 2000. The bridge received the 2002 IABSE Outstanding Structure Award.