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The Oregon Coast Aquarium is an aquarium in Newport, Oregon. It is perhaps best known for having housed Keiko, the orca from the movie Free Willy from January 1996 until 9 September 1998, when he was shipped to Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland. Even without its former star attraction, USA Today and Coastal Living Online have ranked the Oregon Coast Aquarium among the top ten aquariums in the United States. [1] For other uses, see Aquarium (disambiguation). ...
Newport is a city located in Lincoln County, Oregon, USA. It was incorporated in 1882, though the name dates back to the establishment of a post office in 1868. ...
Keiko at the Oregon Coast Aquarium Keiko (circa 1976 – December 12, 2003) was an orca (or killer whale) who performed in the first of the three Free Willy movies. ...
Binomial name Orcinus orca Linnaeus, 1758 Orca range (in blue) The Orca or Killer Whale (Orcinus orca) is not a whale, but the largest species of the oceanic dolphin family (Delphinidae). ...
Free Willy is a 1993 Warner Brothers film about a boy who befriends an orca (killer whale). ...
1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
September 9 is the 252nd day of the year (253rd in leap years). ...
1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
Cliffs on Heimaey, Vestmannaeyjar Vestmannaeyjar (The Westman Islands) is a small archipelago off the south coast of Iceland. ...
Exhibits The Oregon Coast Aquarium's collection focuses on the flora and fauna native to the Oregon Coast. The largest exhibit is entitled 'Passages of the Deep'. Housed in Keiko's former tank, Passages of the Deep allows visitors to walk through acrylic tunnels, in which they are surrounded by such deep water marine animals such as sharks, rays, and rockfish.[2] The aquarium also boasts marine mammals, specifically sea lions, seals, and sea otters, in addition to a sea bird aviary. There are also several exhibits focusing on the smaller marine life in the area, including jellyfish and and tidepool exhibit designed for kids to pet the sea stars and sea anemone. [3] Oregon coast at Brookings, Oregon. ...
Orders see text Sharks are a group (superorder Selachimorpha) of fish, with a full cartilaginous skeleton, a streamlined body plan with between 5 and 7 gill slits along the sides (most often) or side of the head (the first modified slit is behind the eye and called a spiracle), dermal...
Radiation has a variety of different meanings. ...
Rockfish may refer to the following group of fishes: Striped bass of the Moronidae (common name: temperate bass) family. ...
Genera Eumetopias Zalophus Otaria Neophoca Phocarctos A sea lion rookery at Monterey, California A sea lion is any of several marine mammals of the family Otariidae. ...
Seal or SEAL can refer to: Seal, a device used to produce an official stamp as a symbol of authority. ...
Binomial name Enhydra lutris (Linnaeus, 1758) The Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) is a large otter native to the North Pacific, from northern Japan and Kamchatka west across the Aleutian Islands south to California. ...
Orders Stauromedusae Coronatae Semaeostomeae Rhizostomae Jellyfish are marine invertebrates belonging to the Scyphozoan class, and in turn the phylum Cnidaria. ...
Tide pools at a beach Closeup of a tide pool with some algae and barnacles Tide pools (also tidal pools or rock pools) are rocky pools by the ocean that are filled with seawater. ...
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