The president wants to honor a predecessor, William McKinley, by returning his name to North America’s highest peak. The ...

The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the ...

The tallest peak in North America has been named Denali since 2015 when its name was officially changed under former ...

How do place names get made and then changed? There’s a process. But it involves people as well as bureaucracy, so it’s not ...

Google Maps addressed what would happen to those landmarks on their systems. "We have a longstanding practice of applying ...

Gulf of Where? In the same name-swapping order, designed to take effect by mid-February, Trump declared that the Gulf of ...

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

Groups living to the south of the Alaska ... on Geographic Names, but met resistance from Ohio’s congressional delegation. Advertising In 1980, the park’s name was changed to Denali National ...

Groups living to the south of the Alaska ... Board on Geographic Names, but met resistance from Ohio’s congressional delegation. In 1980, the park’s name was changed to Denali National Park ...

Related:Mountain-size battle between Stark, Alaska officials In 1980, Regula agreed to what he viewed as a compromise. Congress renamed the national park Denali ... U.S. Board on Geographic ...

Centuries ago ... change to Denali. Yet the effort failed in Congress due to the opposition of legislators from Ohio, chiefly GOP representative Ralph Regula. The U.S. Board on Geographic Names ...

Standing at 6,190 meters (20,310 feet) tall in south-central Alaska ... “Denali National Park”. The debate quietly rumbled on until 1975, when the State of Alaska petitioned the US Board on ...