Colonizers have always coveted the Gulf of Mexico: its trade winds, ports, fish and shellfish, its deep pockets of oil and gas far beneath a basin floor of crashed, tectonic plates. “This superb ...

Sheinbaum Pardo cited a map from 1607 that refers to the body of water as the Gulf of Mexico in a press conference pushing back on Trump’s name change. The map also dubs North America as ...

NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont took to social media Thursday, seemingly joking about renaming Long Island Sound to Connecticut Sound. “While the maps are changing, here’s ...

MapQuest retains Gulf of Mexico name. Map applications on Apple and Bing have since followed Google's lead. MapQuest, however, isn't among them.The navigation company has retained the Gulf of ...

Other references to the Gulf of Mexico show up in laws dealing with issues such as coastal construction, tourist-development taxes, the definitions of water management districts and an agreement ...

A 1630 map called the body of water "Gulf of New Spain." According to the United States Geological Survey, among the other names the Gulf of Mexico has been called include: Bay of Mexico; Bay of ...

Apple Maps has quietly been updated to change the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" when viewed by U.S. users. This comes a mere day after Google made the same change to its own Maps app.. U ...

The area, long named the Gulf of Mexico across the the world, has gained a geopolitical spotlight in recent weeks after President Donald Trump declared he would change the Gulf’s name.

Sheinbaum Pardo projected a map authored in 1607 that labels a rough drawing of North America as "America Mexicana," or Mexican America, and also names the Gulf of Mexico, already at the time a ...

Google Maps now labels the Gulf of America for U.S. users, and the Gulf of Mexico for those in Mexico. This isn't the first body of water to have different names according to different countries.

Retropolis The Gulf of Mexico’s long history of colonization and varying names. Long before Trump expressed interest in a name change, conquerors have battled to claim the wealth of its rich waters.