1868 October, “The Russians in Manchuria”, in New Monthly Magazine[1], volume CXLIII, number DLXXIV, page 376:
But the basin of the river Sutchane, which flows into the Gulf of America, is particularly pointed out by its climate and soil as the region best adapted for settlement. It presents the advantages of easy communication between the mouth of the Sutchana, near Port Nakhodka and the Usuri. Drawbacks occur in the want of timber, large oaks being only met with in the environs of Nakhodka, but the timber could only be conveyed some thirty versts up the Sutchane, beyond which the river is no longer navigable. Another inconvenience presents itself in the country being already settled. The ruins of an ancient city are indeed met with on the Sutchane, with very loft walls, now covered with secular trees. But this inconvenience is spoken of slightingly. The inhabitants, who are very numerous, call themselves, it appears, Manedza, that is to say “free people ;” but the Chinese designate them as vagabonds. There remains, we are told, notwithstanding the density of the native population, plenty of spare places for Russian establishments.
1893, A. Keppen, “Coal”, in John Martin Crawford, editor, Mining and Metallurgy, with a Set of Mining Maps (The Industries of Russia), volume IV, St. Petersburg, →OCLC, page 73:
As however the coal mines of the island of Sakhalin are at a great distance from Vladivostok, the chief port for the Russian Pacific fleet, and as coal veins have been discovered along the entire southern portion of the seacoast province from the bay of St. Olga to the very frontier of Corea, not only along the entire coast, but also in the interior, the Russian Government started a detailed exploration of the whole of the so-called South-Ousourisk region in 1886. In some places the coal veins have been worked since the beginning of the sixties. The most favourable and the richest of all these coal veins is situated on the river Souchan at a distance of 45 versts from the junction of this river and the Gulf of America. The coal veins here vary between three and seven feet in thickness and consist partly of caking and coking coal, and partly of a smokeless coal, resembling the Cardiff coal.
1895 March 23, “THE MINERAL WEALTH OF SIBERIA.”, in The Mining Journal, Railway and Commercial Gazette, volume LXV, number 3109, London, →OCLC, page 326, column 3[2]:
Coal is also known to occur on the Island of Poutiatin and on the north-eastern shore of Strelok Bay. Vast deposits of coal have been discovered 40 versts up the River Souchan, which falls into the Gulf of America.
The fishing industry on the sea coast of the Japan Sea, from the Korean boundary up to the Gulf of America, is partly in the hands of the local settlers, but mostly in those of Koreans and Chinese, who dispose of their fish in Vladivostock, Possiet, Novokiefsk, and Slavianka.[…]The fishing section along the coast from the Gulf of America as far as the Gulf of De Castry is thinly inhabited ; the coast is not easily accessible, and, in consequence, the industry has been taken up by outsiders.
1913, Th. Tschernyschew, “THE COAL-FIELDS OF RUSSIA”, in The Coal Resources of The World, volume III, Toronto, Canada: Morang & Co. Limited, →OCLC, page 1253:
1. SUCHAN COAL-FIELD This field is situated in the drainage system of the Suchan river, on its right tributaries, between the Olenia and Malaya (Little) Sitza rivers, thirty miles from the bay of Nakodka (Gulf of America) and sixteen miles from the village of Vladimir-Alexandrovskoye.
NAKHODKA, a city (since 1950) under the jurisdiction of Primor'e Krai, RSFSR. It is a port on Nakhodka Bay, an arm of the Gulf of Amerika in the Sea of Japan. Population, 116,000 (1973; 64,000 in 1959).[…] NAKHODKA, a bay in the Gulf of Amerika off the northwestern coast of the Sea of Japan, in Primor'e Krai, RSFSR.]
[1979, Raymond S. Mathieson, “Civil Engineering Projects”, in Japan's Role in Soviet Economic Growth: Transfer of Technology Since 1965[3], Praeger Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 31:
The new port is situated in Wrangel Bay, 32 kilometers north of the expected port of Nakhodka, on the lee side of Cape Ostrovnoy, where it is somewhat more protected from the winds that sweep into the Gulf of Nakhodka (formerly Gulf of Amerika) from the Sea of Japan. Like its sister port, Nakhodka, Vostochnyy is swept by the relatively warm Japan current and therefore remains ice-free throughout winter.]
Sixty miles (96 km) east of Vladivostok lies Nakhodka on the Gulf of Amerika, formerly Wrangel Bay. This is the principal commercial port of Siberia.[…] However, Nakhodka cannot handle the increasing volume of foreign and domestic trade. Thus, only nine miles (14 km) away, also on the Gulf of Amerika, Vostochnyy has been under development as a major port since 1970.]
1987, Rodger Swearingen, “The Soviet Far East, East Asia, and the Pacific—Strategic Dimensions”, in Siberia and the Soviet Far East: Strategic Dimensions in Multinational Perspective[5], number 336, Hoover Institution Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 247:
Nakhodka Port of western entry to Siberia, located 60 miles east of Vladivostok on the Gulf of America (formerly Wrangel Bay). Nakhodka has been Siberia’s principal commercial port and is increasingly important to coastal and Pacific fleet trade.
When the captain of the Russian sailship "America” landed in an unfamiliar gulf during a rough storm, he discovered a naturally protected deep water gulf surrounded by gorgeous rolling green hills. He named his newly found treasure "Nakhodka,” the Russian word for “find,” and later the gulf was named the Zaliv Amerika, "the Gulf of America."
2008, Joseph A. Gillan, chapter 29, in Just before the Dawn: Rebecca Remembered[7] (Fiction), Sarasota, Florida: LIKAJE Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 177:
Siesta Key is touched on its south by Sarasota Bay and on its north by The Gulf of Mexico, which Rollie called "the Gulf of America." "It is here, in Sarasota, in the U-S-of-A, it is here legally, it is not unemployed and it does not carry a shiv or eat tacos." "It's the Gulf of America!" "I see nothing Mexican about that body of water at all."
It's hard for Americans to understand the patriotism that can get bound up in place-names. We're a young country. We're also accustomed, in our cockeyed cowboy fashion, to everything else revolving around us, so we can afford to let slide the fact that, say, the Gulf of Mexico isn't called the Gulf of America. (Although, according to John Hebert, that is the pet issue of one frequent complainant to the Board on Geographic Names.)
2012, Steve Holland, “AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT FOR ALL OFFICIAL PURPOSES WITHIN THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, THE BODY OF WATER LOCATED DIRECTLY SOUTH OF HANCOCK, HARRISON AND JACKSON COUNTIES SHALL BE KNOWN AS THE "GULF OF AMERICA"; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.”, in Mississippi Legislature[9], archived from the original on February 26, 2012:
For all official purposes within the State of Mississippi, the body of water that is located directly south of Hancock, Harrison and Jackson Counties shall be known as the "Gulf of America."
2014, Philip E. Steinberg, “Mediterranean Metaphors: Travel, Translation and Oceanic Imaginaries in the 'New Mediterraneans' of the Arctic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean”, in Jon Anderson, Kimberley Peters, editors, Water Worlds: Human Geographies of the Ocean[10], Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 27:
The resulting conception of the Gulf region as a series of local destinations, as opposed to being an integrated maritime space unified by a body of water, is so pervasive that when Mississippi state legislator Steve Holland proposed renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America in an effort to spoof his anti-immigration colleagues the joke was lost on the national media (Wilkinson 2012).
2025 January 8, Donald Trump, 23:39 from the start, in Full Press Conference: President-elect Donald Trump from Mar-a-Lago[11], FOX 5 Washington DC, archived from the original on January 08, 2025:
And we're going to be announcing at a future date, pretty soon, we're going to change- because we do most of the work there and it's ours- we're going to be changing- sort of the opposite of Biden where he's closing everything up essentially getting rid of 50 to 60 trillion dollars worth of assets- we're going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring. That covers a lot of territory. The Gulf of America, what a beautiful name. And it's appropriate. It's appropriate.
2025 January 8, Steve Holland, Joseph Ax, “Trump won't rule out force to take Panama Canal, Greenland”, in USA Today[12], sourced from Reuters, →ISSN, →OCLC, Nation & World, page 1NN, columns 3–4:
Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, also floated the idea of turning Canada into a U.S. state, said he would demand far higher defense spending from NATO allies and promised to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
2025 January 8, Eve Sampson, “Can Trump Really Rename the Gulf of Mexico the ‘Gulf of America’?”, in The New York Times[13], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on January 08, 2025, Americas[14]:
President-elect Donald J. Trump said Tuesday that he planned to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America,” one of several foreign policy proposals that left world leaders reeling.
Today, I am making my first visit to the Gulf of America since its renaming. As my Administration restores American pride in the history of American greatness, it is fitting and appropriate for our great Nation to come together and commemorate this momentous occasion and the renaming of the Gulf of America.
