Rensvik is a village in the municipality of Kristiansund

Kristiansund

Kristiansund is a city and municipality on the western coast of Norway, in the Nordmøre district of Møre og Romsdal county. It was officially awarded township status in 1742, and it is still the major town for the region. The administrative center of the municipality is the city of Kristiansund...

 in Møre og Romsdal

Møre og Romsdal

is a county in the northernmost part of Western Norway. It borders the counties of Sør-Trøndelag, Oppland and Sogn og Fjordane. The county administration is located in Molde, while Ålesund is the largest city.-The name:...

 county, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. The village is located on the northern part of the island of Frei

Frei

Frei is a village, island, and former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the present-day municipality of Kristiansund between the Kvernesfjord and Freifjord...

, just west of the Omsund Bridge

Omsund Bridge

Omsund Bridge is a bridge that crosses the Omsundet between the islands of Frei and Nordlandet, in the municipality of Kristiansund in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is actually made up of two bridges, since the main bridge does not span the entire strait...

 which connects to the island of Nordlandet

Nordlandet

Nordlandet is an island in the municipality of Kristiansund in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The island is located just east of the city center of Kristiansund, and is one of the boroughs of the city...

. The 1.8 square kilometres (444.8 acre) village has a population (2009) of 2,067. Rensvik was the administrative center of the former municipality of Frei

Frei

Frei is a village, island, and former municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the present-day municipality of Kristiansund between the Kvernesfjord and Freifjord...

 until 2008 when Frei was incorporated into Kristiansund. The village of Kvalvåg

Kvalvåg

Kvalvåg is a village in the municipality of Kristiansund in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The village has a population of 230. The village lies on the southeast side of the island of Frei, along the Freifjorden, about northeast of the village of Frei and southeast of Rensvik....

lies about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) to the southeast.