Whidbey Telecom (Formerly Whidbey Telephone Company) a Telecommunications company operating on the south end of Whidbey Island and Point Roberts, Washington
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Joseph Whidbey - a member of the Royal Navy who served on the Vancouver Expedition
Buckland's findings were followed by further discoveries by Clift and Whidbey in Oreston, Plymouth.
In the spring of 1792, Joseph Whidbey, master of HMS Discovery and Captain Vancouver's chief navigator proved that it was not really a small bay as charted by the Spaniards (hence the name "Deception"), but a deep and turbulent channel that connects the Strait of Juan de Fuca with the Saratoga Passage, which separates the mainland from what they believed was a peninsula (actually Fidalgo Island and Whidbey Island).
Isaac N. Ebey (1818–1857), the first permanent white resident of Whidbey Island, Washington