as part of Successive presidential orders On Trump’s first day in office, the newly sworn-in president signed an order requiring the Gulf of Mexico to be renamed the Gulf of America and Denali to be renamed Mount McKinley.
“America will regain its rightful place as the greatest, most powerful and most respected nation on earth, inspiring the awe and admiration of the entire world,” Trump said in a speech. inaugural speech. “Starting now, we will rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America and restore the name of our great president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley, where it belongs.” ”
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican but a frequent critic of Trump, said she was “strongly opposed” to restoring the name of Mount McKinley.
“This mountain was named Denali 10,000 years ago by the Athabascan people, the indigenous people of this region, who call it Denali, which means great,” she says. “So to President Trump, who wants to make everything great, we already have that great name, so we’re going to talk about it, we’re going to talk about it. I’ve already talked to him about it. We talked about it.”
During the transition period, Trump vowed to change name Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of America. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said last week that she would direct her staff to draft a bill to make effective name changes to federal maps and executive policies.
The name change may apply to the federal government, but other countries are not required to follow suit.
2015, then –President Barack Obama officially changes his name Alaska’s Mount McKinley, like its traditional Alaska Native name Denali, is the nation’s highest peak. Although its official federal designation is Mount McKinley, it has long been known informally in Alaska as Denali.
Can President Trump rename the Gulf of Mexico?
The International Hydrographic Organization works to ensure that all of the world’s oceans, oceans and navigable areas are uniformly surveyed and charted, and some of them even have names, according to the Associated Press. The United States and Mexico are both members of that organization.
Who owns the Gulf of Mexico?
In announcing plans for a bill to rename the Gulf of Mexico, Greene said, “It’s our Gulf of Mexico. Its rightful name is the Gulf of America, and the whole world should call it that.”
However, according to the U.S. State Department, the U.S.-Mexico maritime border in the Gulf of Mexico runs in a straight line, starting at the center of the Rio Grande River’s estuary.
In most cases, the United States has maritime jurisdiction over a portion of the Gulf of Mexico, and Mexico has jurisdiction over that portion.
According to the agency, the Submerged Lands Act (SLA) of 1953 gives each country rights to the natural resources of submerged lands within three nautical miles of its coastline from the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Arctic Ocean, and Gulf of Mexico. Marine energy management. The only exceptions are the west coasts of Texas and Florida, where the state’s jurisdiction extends up to three maritime leagues from the coastline to the Gulf of Mexico.
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