Gulf of Mexico

The Gulf of Mexico (Spanish: Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly surrounded by the North American continent. It is bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the United States of America, on the southwest and south by Mexico, and on the southeast by Cuba. The gulf is one of the most important offshore petroleum production regions in the world, making up one-sixth of the United States' total production.

The term Seno Mejicano, usually translated as Bay of Mexico, first appears in maps of the Spanish Empire in the 1540s. The designation Golfo supplanted Seno by the 19th century.

Gulf of Mexico in Atlantis

The Bay of Mexico was an ocean basin largely surrounded by the Terranovan continent and the island of Nueva Galicia.

Gulf of Mexico in Days of Infamy

In 1942, Joe Crosetti trained at the U.S. Navy air station at Pensacola, making practice flights over the Gulf of Mexico. At least one pilot crashed into the gulf while Crosetti was completing his training.

Gulf of Mexico in Southern Victory

The Gulf of Mexico was regarded as a Confederate lake in the years before the Great War. The Confederate Navy used the gulf for submersible training. During the interwar period, the U.S. Navy patrolled the gulf. In the last years of the Second Great War, U.S. submersibles began operating in the gulf. Unfortunately, they sank ships carrying Black prisoners being shipped from Cuba and Florida to concentration camps in Texas, thus accidentally assisting in the Confederate "Population Reduction."

Gulf of Mexico in Supervolcano

After the eruption of the Yellowstone Supervolcano, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean cooled down, which in turn negatively impacted the Gulf Stream, which in turn caused places that benefitted from the warmth of the Gulf Stream to become much colder.

Gulf of Mexico in The Wages of Sin

English traveler Samuel Langhorne wrote about his trip down the Father of Waters to the French city of New Orleans on the Aztec Gulf.