Xerxes' Pontoon Bridges are mentioned in a single short phrase than they are told to have been destroyed, whereas the construction of the replacement bridges is reported almost in every little detail, but without a word about the time consumed in this exercise. This may lead to the assumption that the bridges told to have been destroyed by a storm were used by Herodotus only as a pretext for his vivid description in all details of an outburst of rage of the great king Xerxes and even to quote his furious speech in full. Xerxes' Pontoon Bridges Xerxes' Pontoon Bridges were constructed in
Baltic Cable the only crossing of two submarine HVDC cables in the Baltic Sea and one of the only few worldwide. From the landing point at the southern coast of Sweden at , the Baltic-Cable runs a further as an underground cable until a point east of the road E6 at , where inside a fenced area the transition from underground cable to overhead powerline takes place. From there the powerline runs as overhead line over two suspension pylons in north-northwesterly direction until the first strainer at . There the line turns into north-northeasterly direction and runs over seven suspension pylons past