Description
On the Arctic Coast, S of Pitt Point, 12 mi. E of Harrison Bay, 80 mi E of Point Barrow.
History
Eskimo name recorded on Maguire's chart (Great Britain, 1854, facing p. 186) as Tasok-poh, and reported to mean "big enclosed coastal water" or "big coastal lake." Captain P. H. Ray's (1885, p. 55) vocabulary lists Tasyukpun, meaning "Great enclosed water." According to Leffingwell (1919, p. 100), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Stefansson spells it Tasirkpuk, while Leffingwell himself appears to have established the present-day spelling.