The adjoining Gulf of Oman is still clearly marked on Google Maps
Posted on 05/04/2012 11:26:28 AM PDT by null and void
The adjoining Gulf of Oman is still clearly marked on Google Maps
Iranians have been complaining that Google Maps now has no name on the body of water they call the Persian Gulf and is also known as the Arabian Gulf.
The issue has stirred controversy in recent years between Iranians and Arabs, who each say their name is the only one that should be used.
A Google representative said the company also did not want to take any political stance in response to the angry Iranian reaction.
He was unable to provide an example of a similar case of a missing landmark.
'No historical justification'
The fact that the blue space between Iran and Arab Gulf states is now nameless on Google Maps shows just how heated the issue has become.
Iranians say there is absolutely no historical justification for calling it anything but the Persian Gulf.
Searching for "Arabian Gulf" on Google elicits a spoof message from Iranian internet users
But there has been increasing pressure from Arab sources to call it the Arabian Gulf - or at least to use both names.
Several years ago, Iranians launched an internet offensive after National Geographic did just that.
As a result, anyone searching for the Arabian Gulf on Google found a website saying it did not exist.
Still on Google Earth
A number of Iranians have posted on twitter a link to Google Maps with the question: "Where's the Persian Gulf?"
They could look at Google Earth - another interactive world map provided by the internet giant.
It still appears there - as does the alternative, the Arabian Gulf.
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The Nameless Gulf
They should rename it, “Allah’s Piss Pool”
...or let’s really make things fun. Google should name it, “The Jewish Gulf of Israeli”
No Muslim would ever get near it again.
...or let’s really make things fun. Google should name it, “The Jewish Gulf of Israel”
No Muslim would ever get near it again.
It was called the Persian Gulf when I was in Grade School in the Fifties.
Twixt the Iranians and the Arabs, The Gulf of Ignorance.
I wondered why Iranians get to use the internet anyway.
AS I recall, CENTCOM starting calling it the Arabian Gulf during the Iran-Iraq war- to piss off (or piss on) the Iranians!
Now if they just call it “the Gulf”, obama will expect them to make him a tee time when he visits the troops
Rename it “The Gulf of Fools” ;-)
Well, you know what they say. One man’s Mede is another man’s Persian.
People have been shot for less...
The Navy has been calling it the Arabian Gulf for a while now, I suspect to piss off the Iranians, but it also makes for better acronyms-NAG (Northern Arabian Gulf), CAG (Central), SAG.
If I was someone like Google in the middle, I would just label it The Gulf.
Gulf of Pigs
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