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Grip Stave Church ( Norwegian: Grip stavkirke) is a historic stave church in the fishing village of Grip in Kristiansund Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located on the small island of Grip about 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) northwest of the city of Kristiansund in the Norwegian Sea.

Kirkelandet Church ( Norwegian: Kirkelandet Kirke) is the main parish church for Kristiansund Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located on the island of Kirkelandet in the town of Kristiansund. The church is part of the Kristiansund parish in the Ytre Nordmøre deanery in the Diocese of Møre.

Nordlandet Church ( Norwegian: Nordlandet kirke) is a parish church in Kristiansund Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located on the western end of the island of Nordlandet in the town of Kristiansund. The church is part of the Nordlandet parish in the Ytre Nordmøre deanery in the Diocese of Møre.

The parish of Christianssund was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). On 1 January 1897, the Grip archipelago was separated from Kristiansund Municipality to become a separate municipality. On 1 January 1964, Kristiansund Municipality was merged with the tiny Grip Municipality (population: 104) to the northwest and the Dale area of Bremsnes Municipality on Nordlandet island (population: 963).

Fort-området har blitt vedlikeholdt av Frei kommune i samarbeid med Kvalvik Forts Venner, venneforeningen er åpen for alle interesserte. Det er også et tett samarbeid med Nordmøre museum. På Kvalvik Fort finnes det blant annet en Biber dvergubåt, en 45 mm panservernkanon og en 25 mm Hotchkiss luftvernkanon utstilt.

Øverland was a communist from the early 1920s, but changed his stand in 1937, partly as an expression of dissent against the ongoing Moscow Trials. He was an avid opponent of Nazism and in 1936 he wrote the poem " Du må ikke sove" ("Dare not to sleep!"