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4 unusual facts about Whidbey Island


Duane R. Bushey

He then served on board the aircraft carrier USS Kearsarge (CVS-33), with two follow-on tours as a flight instructor for fleet replacement navigators with Heavy Attack Squadron 123 at the Naval Air Station, Whidbey Island, Washington and Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 130 at the Naval Air Station in Alameda, California, where he served as Celestial and Radar Navigation Instructor.

Frank D. Robinson

Robinson was born on Whidbey Island in Washington State and received his BSME degree from the University of Washington in 1957, with graduate work in aeronautical engineering at the University of Wichita.

Shodo Harada

In September 1989, Harada came to the United States to provide instruction for students and in 1995 founded One Drop Zendo (or, Tahoma One Drop Zen Monastery) on Whidbey Island in Island County, Washington, where the practice mirrors the practices found at Sogen-ji.

Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship

Ships homeported on the East Coast will undergo upgrades at Metro Machine Corp., and ships based on the West Coast will receive upgrades at General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Company in San Diego.


Atlantis Inc. ROV Team

ROV Team is a high-school underwater robotics team from Whidbey Island, Washington, United States competing in the MATE International ROV Competition.

Clinton, Washington

Additionally, Clinton has a Dairy Queen, the only fast food restaurant on the south end of Whidbey Island.


see also

Deception Pass Bridge

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).

Ebey

Isaac N. Ebey (1818–1857), the first permanent white resident of Whidbey Island, Washington

Whidbey

Whidbey Telecom (Formerly Whidbey Telephone Company) a Telecommunications company operating on the south end of Whidbey Island and Point Roberts, Washington