As part of a a flurry of executive orders On President Trump's first day in office, the incoming President announced that he planned to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of Mexico and rename Denali back to Mount McKinley.
“America will reclaim its rightful place as the greatest, most powerful, most respected nation on earth, to the awe and admiration of the entire world,” Mr Trump said in his message. inaugural address“Not long from now, we will rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of Mexico and we will restore the name of a great President, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley where it should be and where it belongs.”
During the transition, Mr. Trump had Vow to change name Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of America. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene said last week that she would direct her staff to draft legislation for the name change that would make it effective on federal maps and administrative policy.
While the name change could be implemented for federal contexts, there would be no obligation for other countries to follow it.
In 2015, then-President Barack Obama officially renamed Alaska's Mount McKinley, the nation's highest peak, as Denali, the traditional Native Alaskan name. Despite the official federal designation being Mount McKinley, it was long informally known as Denali in Alaska.
Can Trump change the name of the Gulf of Mexico?
The International Hydrographic Organization works to ensure that all of the world's seas, oceans, and navigable waters are equally surveyed and charted, and some of them are even named. associated PressBoth the US and Mexico are members of that organization.
Who owns the Gulf of Mexico?
In announcing the law's plans for rename gulf of mexico“This is our Gulf. The correct name is the US Gulf and the entire world should refer to it by that name,” Green said.
But According to the US State DepartmentThe maritime boundary in the Gulf of Mexico between the United States and Mexico begins at the center of the mouth of the Rio Grande, wherever it is located, and runs in a fixed line.
For the most part, the US has maritime jurisdiction over its portion of the Gulf of Mexico while Mexico has maritime jurisdiction over its portion.
Submerged Lands Act (SLA) of 1953. Gives individual states rights over the natural resources of submerged lands more than 3 nautical miles from the coast in the Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic oceans, and the Gulf of Mexico, According to the Bureau of Ocean Energy ManagementThe only exception is the west coast of Texas and Florida, where the state's jurisdiction extends no more than 3 nautical leagues from the coastline to the Gulf of Mexico.
