Bodie Creek Suspension Bridge, Suspension bridge in Goose Green, Falkland Islands

The Bodie Creek Suspension Bridge is a footbridge with steel cables and framing that carries a wooden walking surface across the creek. The structure exhibits the engineering practices of its era, with its suspended design allowing passage over the water below.

A bridge across Bodie Creek was first proposed in 1922 to centralise Falkland Islands Company sheep farming at Goose Green, and the FIC approved it on 31 March 1924. The steel structure, bought from David Rowell & Co. for £2,281 and shipped as a kit aboard SS Ballena, was erected by engineer Charles P. Peters with about 14 navvies between October 1924 and July 1925. Approach roads were finished by October 1925, and the bridge closed to traffic in 1997.

The bridge was ordered by the Falkland Islands Company to centralise shearing at Goose Green, letting flocks from Walker Creek and Darwin be driven across instead of around Bodie Creek inlet. It opened in October 1925, in time for the shearing season, and was chosen for a 37-pence stamp in the October 2000 "Bridges of the Falkland Islands" set.

The bridge stands about a fifteen-minute drive south of Goose Green and can be reached by road; it closed to traffic in 1997, so it is a viewing stop rather than a crossing. The deck, cables and towers are deteriorating, and the Falkland Islands Museum and National Trust has warned the structure may be lost, so visitors should keep off the span and look from the approach.

The bridge stands as one of the few engineered structures of this type across the islands, where most water crossings are simple fords or improvised solutions. It represents an unusual investment in sophisticated infrastructure for such a remote location.