Orca (disambiguation)

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Orca is another name for a killer whale, the world's biggest dolphin species.

Orca, ORCA or Orcas may also refer to:

People[edit]

• Quintus Valerius Orca (fl. 50s–40s B.C.), Roman praetor and officer under Julius Caesar

Places[edit]

• Orca Basin, a mini-basin in the northern Gulf of Mexico
• Orca Bay (Alaska), a bay near the town of Cordova
• Orca (carbon capture plant), facility that uses direct air capture to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
• Orca gas field, a North Sea gas field
• Orca Inlet, serves as an inlet to Prince William Sound from the Gulf of Alaska
• Orcas Island, the largest of the San Juan Islands in Washington state
  • Orcas Island Airport, the correspondent airport of the island
  • Orcas Village, Washington (sometimes just called Orcas), a community on the island
• Sandford Orcas, a village and parish in north west Dorset, England

Arts and entertainment[edit]

Fictional characters and vehicles[edit]

• Orca (DC Comics), the name of two different comic book characters
• Orca (.hack), a character in the .hack video game series
• Orca, a fictional fishing vessel in the 1975 film Jaws

Film[edit]

• Orca (1977 film), a horror film
• Orca (2021 film), an Iranian sports film
• Orca (2020 film), a Swedish drama film

Literature[edit]

• Orca (novel), a 1996 fantasy novel by Steven Brust

Music[edit]

• Orcas (duo), a Pacific Northwest duo
• Orca (C-Bo album), 2012
• Orca Symphony No. 1, an album by Serj Tankian
• "Orca", a song by Deadmau5, from his 2009 compilation album At Play Vol. 2
• Orca, an album by Gus Dapperton

Organizations[edit]

• Opinion Research Center of Afghanistan
• Orca Air, a 1996–2003 Egyptian regional airline
• Orca Airways, a 2005–2018 small scheduled and charter airline based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• Orca Engineering, a Swiss sports car manufacturing company
• Orca (company), a New Zealand wetsuit and sports apparel manufacturer
• Organization for Respect and Care for Animals, an animal welfare organization
• Otonabee Region Conservation Authority, a conservation authority in Ontario, Canada

Technology and computing[edit]

• The Online Representations and Certifications Application website, now superseded by the US government's System for Award Management
• Orca, a Windows Installer database editor
• Orca (assistive technology), part of the free and open source GNOME desktop environment
• ORCA (quantum chemistry program)
• Orcas, the codename for Visual Studio 2008
• Oscillation Research with Cosmics in the Abyss, part of the KM3NeT neutrino telescope
• ORCA (computer system), a "get out the vote" application created by Mitt Romney's 2012 U.S. presidential campaign

Transportation[edit]

• Orca (supercar), a Swiss supercar
• ORCA card, a smart card for public transit in the central Puget Sound region of Washington State, USA
• Orca-class patrol vessel, a class of training vessels for the Canadian Navy
• USS Orca, several United States Navy ships
• Orca (AUV), autonomous underwater vehicle under development by Boeing and Huntington Ingalls Industries

Other[edit]

• Orca (dog) (2001–2014), a golden retriever and winner of the PDSA Gold Medal
• Omni Role Combat Aircraft (ORCA), an Indian aircraft development program
• Seattle Orcas, a team in Major League Cricket

See also[edit]

• All pages with titles containing Orca
• Orka (comics), a villain in the Marvel comic books
• Orc
• Aukus, a trilateral security pact

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