Sunndalsfjord is a fjord

Fjord

Geologically, a fjord is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created in a valley carved by glacial activity.-Formation:A fjord is formed when a glacier cuts a U-shaped valley by abrasion of the surrounding bedrock. Glacial melting is accompanied by rebound of Earth's crust as the ice...

 in the municipality of Sunndal

Sunndal

is a municipality in the Nordmøre region located in the northeast part of Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Sunndalsøra. Other villages include Jordalsgrenda, Øksendalsøra, Grøa, Hoelsand, Ålvund, and Gjøra.With an area of it is the...

 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 17 kilometres (10.6 mi) long Sunndalsfjord comprises the southern end of the Tingvollfjorden

Tingvollfjorden (Møre og Romsdal)

The Tingvollfjorden is a fjord in the municipalities of Tingvoll, Gjemnes, Nesset, and Sunndal. The inner part of the fjord is called the Sunndalsfjord. The fjord begins at the island of Bergsøya and stretches about to the village of Sunndalsøra. The river Driva flows into the fjord at its start...

. It begins at Ballsneset, at the municipal boundary of Sunndal and extends south to the village of Sunndalsøra

Sunndalsøra

is a village and the administrative centre of the municipality of Sunndal in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located at the mouth of the river Driva at the beginning of the Sunndalsfjord. It is about west of Hoelsand, southeast of Øksendalsøra, and about west of Grøa. The village has a...

. Other villages along the fjord include Jordalsgrenda

Jordalsgrenda

Jordalsgrenda is a small village in the municipality of Sunndal in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway, with approximately 60 inhabitants. The place is located along the Sunndalsfjord on the highway between Sunndalsøra and Molde, and it is about northwest of Øksendalsøra.-Etymology:The name is derived...

 and Øksendalsøra. The main inflow of the fjord is the river Driva

Driva

The Driva river runs through Sør-Trøndelag and Møre og Romsdal counties in Norway. The headwaters lie in the Dovrefjell mountains in the south, from where it flows northward, downward through the valley Drivdalen in the municipality of Oppdal. In Oppdal it turns westward down the Sunndalen valley...

which flows into the fjord at Sunndalsøra.