The Obama-era change followed decades of requests from Native Alaskan leaders for the mountain’s native name ‘Denali’, a Koyukon Athabaskan word meaning "the tall one," "the high one" or "the great one" to be restored.

Gulf of America is out, but Mount McKinley is in. The Associated Press announced Thursday that it would stick to using Gulf of Mexico despite President Donald Trump’s order renaming the waterway to the Gulf of America.