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The Orcas Island Public Library is located in Eastsound and serves a population of approximately 6,000 card holders. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The Orcas Island Library District is a junior-taxing district that funds the Orcas Island Public Library's operating budget through property taxes.
Eastsound (not to be confused with East Sound, which is the body of water adjoining Eastsound) is an unincorporated community on Orcas Island in San Juan County, Washington, United States. Eastsound is the largest population center on Orcas Island, the second-most populated (after San Juan Island) and physically largest of the San Juan Islands.
There are approximately 743 islands and rocks in the San Juan Island chain. Most of the county's population lives on the largest four islands, which are the only county islands served by the Washington State Ferries. The four largest islands are: Orcas Island (149.43 km 2; 57.70 sq mi) San Juan Island (143.62 km 2; 55.45 sq mi)
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Sightings of these whales have been documented as far south as Cape Cod and Long Island. [44] This population is possibly continuous with orcas sighted off Greenland. [43] Orcas are sighted year-round in the Caribbean Sea, [45] and an estimated 267 (as of 2020) are documented in the northern Gulf of Mexico. [46]
SEATTLE (AP) — Researchers say there's a new calf among the population of critically endangered killer whales that live in the waters between Washington state and Canada.
To do this, McInnis and others examined sightings and photographs of 49 different orcas from 1997 to 2021 to see if they had been cataloged in any other existing orca population.
Olga is a waterfront unincorporated community on Orcas Island in San Juan County, Washington, United States. History