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A very prominent character in oceanographic history and science was Matthew Fontaine Maury. Being born an American in ...

Mapmakers and teachers are re-thinking what to call the gulf of water between Mexico, the United States and Cuba after President Donald Trump ordered it renamed from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of ...

Part of a legal description of a boundary line of Dixie County, for instance, says it goes "southerly down the thread of the ...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum joked that if Trump went ahead with the renaming, her country would rename North America ...

Renaming it the Gulf of America would apply only in the US. And the long global history of disputed place names suggests it ...

In his inaugural speech, President Donald Trump repeated his plan to regain control of the Panama Canal. Can he?

Donald Trump took the oath of office as the 47th president of the United States. In his inaugural address, he promised to ...

While a name change for the Gulf of Mexico could be applied for federal references, other nations have no obligation to ...

Since his first run for the White House in 2016, Trump has repeatedly clashed with Mexico over a number of issues, including ...

The SS United States was poised to set sail at the end of last year on her final voyage from Philadelphia to the bottom of ...

In his final days in office, President Joe Biden has exercised his executive authority to withdraw more than 625 million acres of federal waters ...