Waring Point
Waring Point Мыс Уэринг | |
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 View of the cliffs at Waring point | |
  Waring Point | |
| Coordinates: 71°15′46″N 177°27′4″W / 71.26278°N 177.45111°W | |
| Location | Wrangel Island |
| Offshore water bodies | Chukchi Sea |
| Area | |
| • Total | Chukotka, Russian Far East |
| Elevation | 221 m (725 ft) |
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]
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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)
External links
Media related to Waring Point at Wikimedia Commons
