CHRISTIANSUND, a seaport on the west coast of Norway, in Romsdal amt (county), 259 m. N.E. by N. of Bergen, in the latitude of the Faeroe Islands. Pop. (193o) 14,628. It is built on four small islands, by which its harbour is enclosed. The chief ex ports are wood, cod, herrings and fish products, and butter to Great Britain. The town is the chief port of the district of Nord more. Local steamers serve the neighbouring fjords, including the Sundalsfjord, from which at Sundalsoren a driving road past the fine Dovrefjeld connects with the Gudbrandsdal route. Till 1742, when it received town privileges from Christian VI. Christiansund was called Lille-Fosen.