Tapqaq

Tapqaq is an Iñupiaq name for a place on the northern side of St. Michael Island, on the southern shore of Norton Sound. Central Yup’ik speakers call it Tapraq. The island lies near the mouths of the Yukon, where coastal waters meet the river delta. Local communities drew on fish and marine mammals as well as animals from the surrounding land. In 1833 the Russian-American Company built St. Michael Redoubt nearby, establishing a trading post on this coast at the edge of the Yukon country.