# Waring Point

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{{Short description|Headland on Wrangel Island, Russia}}
{{Infobox landform
| name           = Waring Point
| type           = [Headland](/source/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](/source/Wrangel_Island)
| water_bodies   = [Chukchi Sea](/source/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](/source/Chukotka_Autonomous_Okrug), [Russian Far East](/source/Russian_Far_East)
| references     = 
}}
'''Waring Point''' ({{langx|ru|Мыс Уэринг}}) is a [headland](/source/headland) of the [Chukchi Sea](/source/Chukchi_Sea). Administratively, it belongs to the [Chukotka](/source/Chukotka_Autonomous_Okrug), [Russian Federation](/source/Russian_Federation). 

It is the easternmost point of [Wrangel Island](/source/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](/source/USS_Rodgers_(1881)), commanded by Lieutenant [Robert M. Berry](/source/Robert_Mallory_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](/source/horned_puffin), [tufted puffin](/source/tufted_puffin), [thick-billed murre](/source/thick-billed_murre), [glaucous gull](/source/glaucous_gull) and [pelagic cormorant](/source/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>
{|
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|[[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](/source/last_voyage_of_the_Karluk).]]
|[[File:Kap Waring 4 2013-07-29.jpg|thumb|300px|[Black-legged kittiwake](/source/Black-legged_kittiwake)s at Waring Point.]]
|}

==References==
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==External links==
* {{commonscat inline}}
Category:Wrangel Island
Category:Headlands of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Category:Chukchi Sea
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