The present day Line of Actual Control between China and India runs near the same location and remains fiercely contested.

The Phursook Bay was described by the British surveyor H. H. Godwin-Austen in 1867 in his notes on the Pangong Lake district.

It is called Phursook and is said to form the boundary between the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir and the district of Rudok.

It was evidently of great depth in places where the hills came down in cliffs upon it; a narrow beach ran along the foot of these, formed of talus cemented by lime.

Were this lake in a less elevated region, or on a line of trade, how useful would the water-communication prove up and down the extent of its two long portions.