Gordon (or, in Inupiaq, Pattaktuq, meaning “he/she/it is spanking”, alluding to the pounding of the waves on the shore, as though it is being spanked by someone;[1] also Demarcation) was a former fur trading post in North Slope Borough, Alaska, United States on the shore of Demarcation Bay, near the Canadian border in the east.

The place was named after Thomas Gordon, a Scottish whaler and trader[2][3] who was sent by Charles Brower to Demarcation Point in 1917 to establish the post for the fur trading company H.B.

After Gordon and his wife's family later moved to Barter Island, his son Mickey took over the trading post and continued to run it until the late 1920s.

The area around the trading post was, and still is today, a good fishing, hunting and camping site.

Additionally, it occasionally serves as a stopover for people from Kaktovik taking boat trips to Canada to visit friends and relatives.