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Gulf of America
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Gotta keep up with the times. The member formerly known as 4ohSick. It's just too ridiculous to not make fun of; I'm just surprised I was able to get it first.
Gulf of America
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noharleyyet
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Hillary and Kamala been passing the flask...
Room full of gummy gobblers.
Nameless Range
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I'm all for changing geographic names where appropriate, and have been involved in the process various times. This one is dumb as hell. The underlying principle of the Bureau of Geographic Names for establishing official geographic names or changing existing ones is recognition of present-day local usage or preferences. A friend told me he thinks it will go the way of Freedom Fries, and I think he's right.
noharleyyet
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Stole this about Joe's 28th nonsense...yes I know it's a but but but Biden...
"This is Joe just wilding out and having some fun, that crazy ole coot. He's probably all worked up and telling Jill he just popped a blue chew and to get ready cause Uncle Joe wants one more run at the ice cream sandwich before they finish packing up."
Raisin Bran
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Thank you. I always appreciate and respect a back story.I am not that invested either way, but did find the McKinley/Denali dispute interesting.
You are accurate the Obama did have the name changed. I do think that the history is interesting pertaining to the failed attempts of the AK legislature, as well as current/former AK senators and reps, attempting to have the Denali nomenclature for a few decades.
Thanks Obama, you evil bastard.
I appreciate your link. Here is another with more details. Be sure to check the legitimacy of the information as it is Wiki. Nothing jumped out at me, but maybe you disagree.
Denali–Mount McKinley naming dispute - Wikipedia
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I have a hard time not throwing up reading anything Wikipedia has to say. I will suffer through this time for the sake of our conversation.
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LuketheDog
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I mean, technically the shoreline mileage is almost a 50/50 split and he's only renaming the northern half to the international boundaries of Mexico and Cuba, so maybe it does need to happen
Nameless Range
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I mean, technically the shoreline mileage is almost a 50/50 split and he's only renaming the northern half to the international boundaries of Mexico and Cuba, so maybe it does need to happen
Need?
Trumps playing a game. He's clearly good at it - one of the best ever - and reversing centuries of toponym use to rah-rah some folks is and will be par for the course. The unfortunate thing is we are setting ourselves up for a bunch of maps to be changed with another administration in a few years/decade, and the cycle will go on.
LuketheDog
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You know, "Gulf of Mexico" wasn't the original name either, it's about 6th or 7th on the list and wasn't a common reference until the 17th century, and "Gulf of Florida" was one of the names before that, maybe that's what we should call it now...
Nameless Range
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It's fun to search geographic names and see the variants for given features and where they were used or maybe still are.
Domestic Names
Place names within the United States and its dependent areas are available in the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and are the responsibility of the Domestic Names Committee (DNC) of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN).
Just some of the long list on the USGS site:
Bay of Mexico
Bay of New Spain
Mexican Gulf
Mar del Norte
Mar di Florida
etc.
Nameless Range
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While we are talking about changing names though, there's 989 Deer Creeks in this country. There's nearly 1500 Spring Creeks. We oughta winnow those down. Replace em with something more unique and meaningful. I love fun place names. Here in Montana, we've got the Angels Bathing Pool, Bloody Dick Peak, The Hog Heaven Mountain Range, etc. We need more one-of-a-kinds.
Think of it as a starting point for your research.Thank you. I always appreciate and respect a back story.
I have a hard time not throwing up reading anything Wikipedia has to say. I will suffer through this time for the sake of our conversation.
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BuzzH
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The gulf of WGAF, there, now we can all be friends again.
LuketheDog
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At my last unofficial count, I think Colorado has about 1,000 "Lost Lakes"...I hope they don't change "Nipple Peak" though, it's probably not unique but that one always gets a chuckle
BigHornRam
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Gellar
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Renaming any of these would be a hard no for me. Except for whiskey Dick Mountain, there’s not much hard about that.
www.backpacker.com
11 Summits with Outrageous Names
No, we didn't make this up. We combed the USGS registry for this list of 12 summits with weird, scandalous, profane, and all around outrageous names.
www.backpacker.com
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Gellar
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We have 3 bear creeks in our county. All in different geographic quadrants of the county.
