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Fro Sound, Norwegian Frohavet, sound in the Norwegian Sea, off the coast of west-central Norway. A busy commercial artery at the entrance to Trondheims Fjord, it extends for about 35 miles (55 km) between the Froan Islands to the west and the Fosna Peninsula on the mainland to the southeast in the Sør-Trøndelag region. Small fishing villages dot the shores of Fro Sound, both on the islands and the mainland.
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Norwegian Sea, section of the North Atlantic Ocean, bordered by the Greenland and Barents seas (northwest through northeast); Norway (east); the North Sea, the Shetland and Faroe islands, and the Atlantic Ocean (south); and Iceland and Jan Mayen Island (west). The sea reaches a maximum depth of about…
Norway, country of northern Europe that occupies the western half of the Scandinavian peninsula. Nearly half of the inhabitants of the country live in the far south, in the region around Oslo, the capital. About two-thirds of Norway is mountainous, and off its much-indented coastline lie, carved by deep glacial…