This cape is located on the southeastern coast of Wrangel Island, facing the Chukchi Sea, about 40 km (25 mi) east of Rodgers Harbor.

[1] Cape Hawaii was named in August 1867 by Thomas Long, the captain of American whaling bark Nile,[2] after the Hawaiian Islands, where his ship was based.

[3] On 23 August 1881 the headland was the first point of Wrangel Island sighted by Lieutenant Robert M. Berry on USS Rodgers during the search for the Jeannette.

[4][5] In the 1960s, a radar station of the Soviet Air Defence Forces was built on Cape Hawaii.

They rarely visited neighboring Ushakovskoye village, and only following an invitation of local authorities or in connection with significant events.