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Shaw Island
Name
Orcas Island, is not named after the Orca
whales as one might expect, but rather, named after Don Juan Vincente de Guemes
Pacheco Padilla Horcasitas y Aguayo Conde de Revilla Gigedo (!!), the patron of
a Spanish explorer and viceroy of Mexico.
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