Kristiansund is a city on the northwest coast of Norway.
Kristiansund is known as the major "Bacalao" city of Norway. Bacalao is made of salted, dried codfish. The openness and friendlyness of the Kristiansund people is well known. This due to the long trading and fish export traditions.
Recent years Kristiansund has become the major oil and gas city at the northwest coast. Oil companies like Shell, Statoil and Norsk Hydro have offices in Kristiansund from where they serve theire offshore installations.