Fosen

thumb|right|Fosen landscape view; Åfjord Municipality|Åfjord. thumb|Fosenhallen, indoor speed skating rink in [[Botngård]] Fosen is a traditional district in coastal Trøndelag county, Norway. The district consists of the municipalities Osen, Åfjord, Ørland, Indre Fosen, Orkland, Heim, Hitra, and Frøya. In colloquial speech, Fosen also refers to the Fosen peninsula, (Indre Fosen, Åfjord, and Osen) with the peninsula also having the Southern Sami name . In the early 20th century, the region became a site of environmental conflict and activist attention over a wind turbine farm that encroached on reindeer herders of the Sámi people. The Norwegian supreme court ruled in 2021 that the wind farm violated Sámi indigenous rights.

==Geography== The district is dominated by forested valleys, lakes, coastal cliffs but also shallow areas, and in the interior mountains reaching up to in elevation. The western coast has many skerries and some islands, such as Stokkøya in Åfjord. There are some good salmon rivers, and sea eagles and other sea birds are very common along the coast, notably on the shallow area near Ørland (Grandefjæra). The west coast has mild winters, and some locations (just west of the mountains) receive on average more than of precipitation per year. Part of the Scandinavian coastal conifer forests () are located in the valleys of the peninsula, and smaller areas are classified as temperate rainforest with 67 nature reserves. The largest nature reserve is the Øyenskavele, with many nature types including undisturbed forest, some of it classified as rainforest. thumb|left|The Kråkvåg bridge connecting the two islands Storfosna and Kråkvåg, Ørland municipality. thumb|right|Opphaug in [[Ørland Municipality is the only area dominated by flat lowland on the peninsula]]