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Island Transit was established in 1983 as a public transportation benefit area (PTBA), a type of municipal corporation in Washington state for public transit agencies. The Island County Board of Commissioners proposed the creation of a PTBA in September 1980, using a 0.3 percent sales and use tax to fund a bus system. [2]
The Southern Whidbey Island Fault (SWIF) is a significant terrane boundary manifested as an approximately four mile wide zone of complex transpressional faulting with at least three strands. [42] Marine seismic reflection surveys show it striking northwest across the eastern end of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. [43]
MV Tokitae en route to Clinton, Whidbey Island. Tokitae was also the earliest name of an orca that had been captured in Penn Cove , Whidbey Island. Jesse White, the veterinarian who bought the captured orca in Seattle for the Miami Seaquarium, gave her that name, but she was renamed Lolita in Miami.
The 56-year-old de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter was manufactured in 1967 by Canadian aircraft company De Havilland Canada and issued serial number 466.. Prior to being registered in the United States, the aircraft was registered C-FVQD in Canada, having been acquired and operated by several Canadian airlines, charter operators, and private owners during the first 46 years of its lifespan.
In April 2009, the West Seattle route was renamed from the Elliott Bay Water Taxi to the King County Water Taxi. [14] Later that year, on September 28, 2009, the Vashon Island/Downtown Seattle route was transferred from Washington State Ferries and became the second King County Water Taxi Route. [15]
The paper started as the Whidby Record and later changed its name in the 1940s to The Whidbey Record when the proper spelling of the island's namesake, Joseph Whidbey, was discovered to have an "e" in it. [2] The paper adopted its present name in 1981. [3] The Examiner won awards from the Suburban Newspapers of America in 2004, [4] 2005, [5 ...
Not all trips serve all island terminals. Lopez Island: Shaw Island: Orcas Island: Interisland: Friday Harbor, San Juan Island Orcas Island Shaw Island Lopez Island Port Townsend–Coupeville Port Townsend: Coupeville, Whidbey Island: SR 20: 686,924 316,823 Reservations recommended; Mukilteo–Clinton Clinton, Whidbey Island Mukilteo: SR 525: ...
Tucker, Dave (July 2010), "Whidbey Island glacial deposits", Northwest Geology Field Trips "Whidbey Island: Glacial erratics", Western Geo Hikes, January 29, 2008, archived from the original on 2015-06-10; Whidbey Island Glaciation (ESS 210) (PDF) (Field trip handbook), University of Washington Department of Earth and Space Sciences