Keiko to remain at island base; funding plunges By LARRY BACON The Register-Guard Recommend this story to others. Keiko the killer whale will stay put in his remote home base in the Westmann Islands off Iceland's south coast instead of moving as his handlers had considered. The orca also will soon resume "ocean walks" in search of a pod that will accept him, but the Keiko team will scale back the operation because of a smaller budget. The Ocean Futures Society, the California organization that for 3 1/2 years has worked with Keiko to try to reintroduce him to...