Started in Sundbåt ("Sound Boat"/"Strait Crossing Boat") shuttle service with a capacity of a few tens of passengers, travelling between the islands. The small motor ferry crosses the harbour from Kirk(e)landet to Innlandet, then goes on to Nordlandet, to Gomalandet, and back to Kirkelandet, repeating the round trip in half-hour intervals morning to evening on weekdays. The Sundbåt bears the distinction of being the world's oldest motorized regular public transport system in continuous service.
The road to Kristiansund from mainland Norway, National Road No. 70 (RV 70) is connected to Trondheim.
There is a car ferry going from Kirkelandet to Atlanterhavstunnelen in december 2008. A second car ferry goes from Seivika on Nordlandet to Tustna in northeast (road: RV 680), with further road and ferry connections to islands Smøla and Hitra, and to Aure on the mainland.
Besides roads and car ferries and Kystekspressen to Trondheim.
Notable people from Kristiansund
The following persons are from, or have their roots in, Kristiansund (chronological list).
Arts and culture
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Edvard Fliflet Bræin (1924–76); choir and orchestra composer and conductor, two operas and three symphonies (biography) Nurembergopera houses
Karsten Alnæs (b. 1938); fiction and popular history writer (his parents were from Kr.sund)
Frode Alnæs (b. 1959); pop singer, guitarist, entertainer (Dance with a Stranger and solo career)
Wilhelm F. K. Christie (1778–1849); politician (Indep. P.) and civil servant, first President of the Storting (1814, 1815, 1818) Ulrik Olsen (1885–1963); politician (Ap), Minister of Local Government and Employment 1948–58 Kaare Fostervoll (1891–1981); politician (Ap) and administrator, manager of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation 1948–62
Hans Hammond Rossbach (b. 1931); politician (V), MP 1965–85, leader of the Liberal Party of Norway 1976–82
Alv Jakob Fostervoll (b. 1932); politician (Ap), MP 1969–77, Minister of Defence 1971–72, 1973–76
Other fields of society
Sigurd Frisvold (b. 1947); ArmyGeneral, former Chief of Defence
Steinar Wiik Sørvik (b. 1962); defence laywer (several national level crime trials)
