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On the Arctic Coast, S of Pitt Point, 12 mi. E of Harrison Bay, 80 mi E of Point Barrow.
HistoryEskimo 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.
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Semipalmated Sandpiper, Steller's Eider, Arctic Tern, Snow Bunting, Snow Goose, American Wigeon, Pectoral Sandpiper, Greater White-fronted Goose, Canada Goose, Northern Pintail, Long-tailed Duck, Black-bellied Plover, Red Phalarope, Lapland Longspur, Common Eider, Dunlin, White-rumped Sandpiper, Red-necked Phalarope, Parasitic Jaeger, Aleutian Cackling Goose, King Eider, Sabine's Gull, Savannah Sparrow, Glaucous Gull, Tundra Swan, Northern Shoveler, Green-winged Teal, Spectacled Eider, Sandhill Crane, American Golden Plover, Ruddy Turnstone, Yellow-billed Loon, Snowy Owl, Peregrine Falcon, Tree Swallow, American Robin, Northern Wheatear, Buff-bellied Pipit, Hoary Redpoll, American Tree Sparrow, Greater Scaup, Semipalmated Plover, Baird's Sandpiper, Western Sandpiper, Long-billed Dowitcher, Wilson's Snipe, Pomarine Jaeger, Long-tailed Jaeger, Black-legged Kittiwake, Red-throated Loon, Pacific Loon, Northern Harrier, Rough-legged Hawk, Short-eared Owl, Common Raven, Barn Swallow, Varied Thrush, Fox Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, White-crowned Sparrow
