Waring Point () is a
headland
A headland, also known as a head, is a coastal landform, a point of land usually high and often with a sheer drop, that extends into a body of water. It is a type of promontory. A headland of considerable size often is called a cape.Whittow, Jo ...
of the
Chukchi Sea
The Chukchi Sea (, ), sometimes referred to as the Chuuk Sea, Chukotsk Sea or the Sea of Chukotsk, is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is bounded on the west by the Long Strait, off Wrangel Island, and in the east by Point Barrow, Alaska, ...
. Administratively, it belongs to the
Chukotka,
Russian Federation
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.
It is the easternmost point of
Wrangel Island
Wrangel Island (, ; , , ) is an island of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia. It is the List of islands by area, 92nd-largest island in the world and roughly the size of Crete. Located in the Arctic Ocean between the Chukchi Sea and East Si ...
.
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.
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.
[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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Wrangel Island
Headlands of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Chukchi Sea
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