Elon Musk published a photo of the La Manche channel with the signature “Jerzy Washington Channel” in social media. The entry did not escape the attention of the French and British media, who wonder what prompted the billionaire and the right hand of Donald Trump to publish the “amazing” entry.
“The new name of the water separating England and France” – he wrote Elon Musk On platform X on Sunday. The entry was joined by a satellite photo of the La Manche channel with the signature “Jerzy Washington Channel”. The photo was displayed well over 100 million times in just two days.
“Amazing” entry of Elon Muska
The entry did not escape the media. The French portal Capital Musk's post described it as “amazing”, “especially since Jerzy Washington has never crossed the La Manche channel, whose current name has been used since the 17th century.” The 20 minutes portal, in turn, noted that some people commenting on the post of the billionaire “perceive him as an allusion to Trump's expansionist tendencies towards Greenland or Panama.” The media in the Islands, which on “water separating England and France” have their name – English channel – also noticed a suggestion of a loved one collaborator Donald Trump.
20 minutes supposes that the “most likely hypothesis” regarding the entry of Musk is associated with reports that United Kingdom He does not plan to recognize the change of the Mexican Gulf into the Mexican Gulf. Referring to his sources, “The Telegraph” said a few days earlier that the name of the bay would not change on British maps, “as long as”American bay'will not become the most commonly used term, which is unlikely. ”
Changing the name of the Gulf of the Mexican
The Commission for the Standardization of Geographical Names outside the Polish Republic (KSNG) Last Wednesday reminded at GOV.pl that the name of the Gulf of Mexican (Gulf of Mexico, French Golfe du Mexique) was established by the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO ).
“Changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico in IHO would require the consent of all countries lying on this aquure, and therefore also Mexico and Cuba – without the consent of these two countries in the international arena in English it will still be Gulf of Mexico, regardless of the decision taken in the United States,” he explains – he explains KSNG.
20 minutes, The Independent, TVN24.pl
Source of the main photo: Getty images