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Letter: A modest proposal from the United States of Vespucci

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Isn’t it marvelous that America was named after the Italian Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512), a Florentine navigator, explorer and cartographer who participated in voyages to the New World between 1497 and 1504 on behalf of Spain and Portugal? Shouldn’t we really be correcting Google and other maps to read “the Gulf of Amerigo” and “Lake Amerigo” after this wonderful Italian immigrant? Make Amerigo Great Again? God bless Amerigo — or maybe the United States of Vespucci? — Ken Green , Cooper Landing Have something on your mind? Send to letters@adn.com or click here to submit via any web browser. Please include your contact info. Letters under 200 words will have the best chance of being published. Writers should disclose any personal or professional connections with the subjects of their letters. Letters are edited for accuracy, clarity and length. If you’re citing statistics or published sources, please include citations or links. Read our full opinion guidelines here .

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