Beasley said there are indications that Francis ... historic map is compared to a new online depiction, Jan. 21, 2025. Kristian Foden-Vencil / OPB In the official record of voyage, Drake landed ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

A Florida state senator has filed a bill to make the newly official name "Gulf of America" consistent throughout state ...

A leat commissioned by none other than Plymouth's own privateer and Elizabethan sailing legend Sir Francis Drake has been found ... Early Victorian maps show an iron works, a sawmill and a dye ...

used "Gulf of Mexico" on his map "View of Entire Route of Sir Francis Drake's West Indian Voyage." A 1630 map called the body of water "Gulf of New Spain." The Spanish name evolved into Seno Mexicano.

Fast-forward two millennia and the paintwork has long since faded, giving rise to a range of colourless copycats that would ...

But his return voyage had been delayed again and again ... ride home less than a year later with a fleet commanded by Sir Francis Drake. The following spring, in 1587, White led a third expedition ...