#52221 KITIKMEOT W discharging oil grades at Fuel Terminal, Rothesay Dock, Clydebank (Scotland)

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Wednesday, February 19, 2025 @ 1000
The date is correct but time is unknown and the time shown here is only our best estimate

Ship's location	Fuel Terminal, Rothesay Dock, Clydebank (River Clyde, Scotland, UK)	Port of Registry	Majuro (Marshall Islands : country of more than 1,200 islands and atolls in Central Pacific Ocean)
Arrived from	Rotterdam (Netherlands)	Gross Tonnage	13,097
Cargo carried on arrival	Oil grades	Deadweght Tonnage	19,983

An unusual name, in't it ? The owners are Canadian.

So looking up Brittanica :

Kitikmeot, westernmost of the three regions of Nunavut territory, Canada.

It was designated the Central Arctic region of the Northwest Territories in 1981, being formed from the northern part of Fort Smith region.

In 1982 it received its present name, which is the traditional Inuit word for the area.

It is bordered by the Northwest Territories (west and south) and the Nunavut regions of Keewatin (east and south) and Baffin (north and east).

The region encompasses the central Arctic coast, extending inland (south) below Napaktulik Lake and eastward to include Boothia Peninsula.

It also includes King William Island, as well as parts of Prince of Wales and Somerset islands and the Nunavut portion of Victoria Island.

Lying mainly above the Arctic Circle, the region’s landscape is characterized by tundra vegetation.

Cambridge Bay (Ikaluktutiak) on Victoria Island is the regional headquarters.

Among the other small settlements are Kugluktulea, Gjoa Haven (Uqsuqtuq), and Taloyoak (Talurruaq).

Inuit form the great majority of the population. Pop. (2006) 5,361; (2011) 6,012.

So now that you know of the vessel's ancestry here is the ship

Contributed by Robert McManus