Waring Point Explained

Waring Point
Type:Headland
Other Name:Russian: Мыс Уэринг
Map:Russia Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Relief:yes
Location:Wrangel Island
Water Bodies:Chukchi Sea
Coordinates:71.2628°N -177.4511°W
Elevation:221m (725feet)
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]

Notes and References

  1. http://worldmaps.web.infoseek.co.jp/russia_guide.htm 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 .
  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)