Queen Juliana Bridge is a four lane road bridge across St. Anna Bay

Sint Anna Bay

Sint Anna Bay or Santa Anna Bay is a deep channel approximately one mile long and up to 1,000 feet wide located on the island of Curaçao between the two parts of Willemstad, the capital of Netherlands Antilles. The bay opens into the Caribbean Sea at the south end, and into the Schottegat lagoon...

 in Willemstad

Willemstad

Willemstad can refer to:*Willemstad, the capital of Curaçao*Willemstad , a town in Moerdijk, the Netherlands*Willemstad , a hamlet near Marum, the Netherlands*Willemstad , a hamlet in the Netherlands...

, the capital of Curaçao

Curaçao

Curaçao is an island in the southern Caribbean Sea, off the Venezuelan coast. The Country of Curaçao , which includes the main island plus the small, uninhabited island of Klein Curaçao , is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands...

. The bridge is named after Queen Juliana

Juliana of the Netherlands

Juliana was the Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands between 1948 and 1980. She was the only child of Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry...

 of the Netherlands. The original bridge collapsed in 1967 and its replacement, the current bridge, opened on Queen’s Day, (April 30) 1974.

Reaching a height of 56.4 m (185 feet) above the water at its apex (to accommodate ships entering the narrow harbour), the bridge is one of the highest in the world. It weighs 3,400 tons.

The view from the apex includes the entire panorama of Punda, Otrobanda, and the Schottegat and is the highest vantage point on the island.