Alaska Gazetteer
Teshekpuk Lake is a physical feature (lake) in North Slope Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Teshekpuk Lake |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Lake |
| 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." |
| Borough: | North Slope Borough |
| Latitude: | 70.5929489136 |
| Longitude: | -153.571060181 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Teshekpuk Lake: Teshekpuk Lake.
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