Jan 21, 2025 · President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday renaming Denali—the highest peak in North America—to Mount McKinley, the Alaska mountain’s name prior to 2015, a move he has suggested ...

On August 30, 2015, Sally Jewell announced that the mountain would be renamed Denali, under authority of federal law which permits her as Secretary of the Interior to name geographic features if the Board on Geographic Names does not act within a "reasonable" period of time.

Jan 23, 2025 · The executive order directs the reinstatement of the name "Mount McKinley" to the highest peak in North America, reversing the 2015 decision to call it by its centuries-old name Denali, and claims to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America". [2][3] The order further outlines the process for updating the U.S. Board on Geographic Names ...

Jan 20, 2025 · Ahead of his inauguration on Monday, it was revealed that Trump would sign an order to rename Denali as Mount McKinley (and rename the Gulf of Mexico).

Jan 21, 2025 · As part of a flurry of executive orders on President Trump's first day in office, the newly inaugurated president signed orders calling for renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf …

Jan 23, 2025 · When President Donald Trump signed an executive order on his first day back in office to rename North America's tallest peak, known as Denali in Alaska, after President William McKinley, one ...

Jan 26, 2025 · Alaskans are responding after President Donald Trump changed the name of North America's tallest peak from Denali back to Mount McKinley.

Jan 28, 2025 · President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Denali , the tallest peak in the country , has resulted in lots of discussion.

Jan 20, 2025 · The national park area surrounding Mount McKinley shall retain the name Denali National Park and Preserve.

Dec 22, 2024 · U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday he will rename Denali, Alaska natives' name for North America's tallest mountain, after William McKinley, the 25th U.S. president who was...