Famous places can get name changes, experts say, but they don’t always last.
People enjoy the sunset over the water in the Gulf of Mexico during the seasonal king tides on Oct. 27, 2019, in Key Largo, Florida. As part of his prolific stream of executive orders this week, President Trump ordered that the name of the Gulf of Mexico be renamed “The Gulf of America.
A view of Denali, formerly known as Mt. McKinley, on Sept. 1, 2015, in Denali National Park, Alaska. As part of his prolific stream of executive orders this week, President Trump ordered that the name of America’s tallest mountain be changed from Denali to Mount McKinley. McKinley, a Republican from Ohio, was elected in 1896 and shot to death in 1901 in Buffalo by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist. A gold prospector in Alaska began calling the peak “Mount McKinley” in 1897 and the name stuck after his assassination.
Trump’s executive order didn’t include the whole gulf, only the parts in U.S. territorial waters. The order defined those portions as “the U.S. Continental Shelf area bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida and extending to the seaward boundary with Mexico and Cuba in the area formerly named as the Gulf of Mexico.”
Both U.S. senators from Alaska say they oppose changing the name. One, Dan Sullivan, is married to a woman, Julie Fate, from a native Alaskan family. The other, Lisa Murkowski, issued a statement saying Denali “must continue to be known by the rightful name bestowed by Alaska’s Koyukon Athabascans, who have stewarded the land since time immemorial.”
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