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The federal government is formally implementing President Trump’s directive to rename the Gulf of Mexico and Mount Denali.
The Department of the Interior issued a press release saying that “the Gulf of Mexico will now be officially known as the Gulf of America.”
He also said he was reversing an Obama-era decision to rename Alaska’s Mount McKinley to Mount Denali.
The department said the US Board of Geographic Names was working “expeditiously” to update names with these features in the Geographic Names Information System and that the changes are “effective immediately for federal use.”
Although the Gulf of America change is new, what is called the nation’s highest peak has been a topic of debate for years.
In 2015, the Obama administration he decided to formally call it Mount Denali, the name used by the local natives.
President McKinley, after whom the mountain is once again named, never visited Alaska. his name was used for the first time for the summit in an article written by a gold prospector in 1897 and popularized after his murder.
