{{Short description|Headland on Wrangel Island, Russia}} {{Infobox landform | name = Waring Point | type = Headland | other_name = {{lang|ru|Мыс Уэринг}} | image = Kap Waring 1 2013-07-29.jpg | image_size = 250px | caption = View of the cliffs at Waring point | pushpin_map = Russia Chukotka Autonomous Okrug | map_width = | map_caption = | pushpin_relief = yes | location = Wrangel Island | water_bodies = Chukchi Sea | coordinates = {{coord|71|15|46|N|177|27|4|W|type:landmark_region:RU_scale:1000|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | elevation = {{convert|221|m|abbr=on}} | area = Chukotka, Russian Far East | references = }} '''Waring Point''' ({{langx|ru|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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://worldmaps.web.infoseek.co.jp/russia_guide.htm |title=Location |access-date=2019-10-13 |archive-date=2008-01-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080109202105/http://worldmaps.web.infoseek.co.jp/russia_guide.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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.<ref>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}}</ref>
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.<ref>Belikovich A.V., Galanin A.V., Afonina O.M., Makarova I.I. ''Plant world of specially protected territories of Chukotka''. BSI FEB RAS (2006)</ref> {| |- valign="top" |[[File:FMIB 41195 Rescue of the Party at Waring Point, Wrangell Island - 'The rescue, both here and at Rodgers Harbor, was effected just in time'.jpeg|thumb|300px|Rescue of the party at Waring Point during the last voyage of the Karluk.]] |[[File:Kap Waring 4 2013-07-29.jpg|thumb|300px|Black-legged kittiwakes at Waring Point.]] |}
==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * {{commonscat inline}} Category:Wrangel Island Category:Headlands of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Category:Chukchi Sea {{ChukotkaAutonomousOkrug-geo-stub}}