Waring Point

Waring Point
Waring Point
Мыс Уэринг
	View of the cliffs at Waring point
Location	Wrangel Island
Coordinates	71°15′46″N 177°27′4″W / 71.26278°N 177.45111°WCoordinates: 71°15′46″N 177°27′4″W / 71.26278°N 177.45111°W
Offshore water bodies	Chukchi Sea
Elevation	221 m (725 ft)
Area	Chukotka, Russian Far East

Waring Point (Russian: Мыс Уэринг) is a headland of the Chukchi Sea. Administratively it belongs to the Chukotka, Russian Federation.

It is the easternmost point of Wrangel Island.^[1]

This headland was named in 1881 after Lieutenant Waring of USS Rodgers, commanded by Lieutenant Robert M. Berry. Lt. Waring was the first to land at this point.^[2]

Very large numbers of birds are nesting on the cliffs of this cape, including the horned puffin, tufted puffin, thick-billed murre, glaucous gull and pelagic cormorant.^[3]

Rescue of the party at Waring Point during the last voyage of the Karluk.

Black-legged kittiwakes at Waring Point.

References[]

^ Location
^ Leontiev V.V. , Novikova K.A. Toponymic Dictionary of the North-East of the USSR / scientific. ed. G. A. Menovschikov ; FEB AN USSR . North-East complex. Research institutes. Lab archeology, history and ethnography. - Magadan: Magad. Prince Publishing House , 1989 . ISBN 5-7581-0044-7
^ Belikovich A.V., Galanin A.V., Afonina O.M., Makarova I.I. Plant world of specially protected territories of Chukotka. BSI FEB RAS (2006)

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[1] Location

[2] Leontiev V.V. , Novikova K.A. Toponymic Dictionary of the North-East of the USSR / scientific. ed. G. A. Menovschikov ; FEB AN USSR . North-East complex. Research institutes. Lab archeology, history and ethnography. - Magadan: Magad. Prince Publishing House , 1989 . ISBN 5-7581-0044-7

[3] Belikovich A.V., Galanin A.V., Afonina O.M., Makarova I.I. Plant world of specially protected territories of Chukotka. BSI FEB RAS (2006)

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