title: Kitak
text: # Kitak
  
  Kitak is an island in the Sermersooq municipality in southeastern Greenland.
  
  In 1961 the German weather ship WBS 11 Hessen was renamed 'Kitak'.
  
  ## Geography
  
  The island is located on the western side of the entrance of the Sermilik Fjord. There is a sheltered bay in the NW side of Kitak that is reportedly a good anchorage for ocean-going vessels. The island is 10.2 kilometres (6 miles) long with maximum width of 4.3 kilometres (3 miles).
  
  Kitak is the largest and easternmost island of a compact cluster of coastal islands, islets and rocks extending for 14 km from the easternmost point of Kitak to the 51 m high islet of Igssalik in the west; 2.2 kilometres (1 mile) long Orssuiagssuaq, where formerly a LORAN station was located, is the southernmost island. The archipelago is separated from the mainland by narrow sounds, one of which is named 'Ikasartik'. The Suunikajik island cluster is located 4 km to the west.
  
  The nearest inhabited settlement is Tasiilaq, the most populous community on the eastern coast and the seventh-largest town in Greenland, located on Ammassalik Island on the other side of the fjord about 40 km to the east-northeast.
  
  * Map of Greenland section.
  