Orca

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An orca or killer whale is a large marine mammal.

Orca may also refer to:

• ORCA (animal welfare organisation)
• Orca (assistive technology), open source, assistive technology of the GNOME desktop environment
• Orca (dog), a golden retriever and winner of the PDSA Gold Medal
• Orca (program), a computational chemistry software suite

Books and Films

• Orca (film), a 1977 horror film
• Orca (novel), a 1996 fantasy novel by Steven Brust

Characters

• Orca (comics), a villain in Batman comic books
• Orca (.hack), a character in the .hack video game series

Vehicles

• Orca (Jaws boat), a fictional fishing vessel in Jaws
• Orca (supercar), a Swiss supercar
• Orca class patrol vessel, a class of training vessels for the Canadian Navy
• USS Orca, several United States Navy ships
• Orca, a fictional VTOL aircraft in the Command & Conquer Tiberium Universe

People with the name

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

Orcas

• 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
• Orcas, the Microsoft pre-release codename for Visual Studio 2008, as a reference to the above island

See also

• All pages with titles containing "Orca"
• ORCA Card, a smart card for public transit in the central Puget Sound region of Washington State, USA
• ORCA Platform, an open source electronic payments processing platform
• Orka (comics), a villain in the Marvel comic books
• Orca Basin, a mini-basin in the northern Gulf of Mexico
• Orca Bay, Alaska, a bay near the town of Cordova
• Orca Inlet, serves as an inlet to Prince William Sound from the Gulf of Alaska
• Orca Air, a defunct Egyptian regional airline
• Orca Airways, a small scheduled and charter airline based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• Orca Engineering, a Swiss sports car manufacturing company
• Orca wetsuits and sports apparel, a New Zealand wetsuit and sports apparel manufacturer

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