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Gulf of Urabá

Gulf of Urabá (Golfo de Urabá), largest estuary of the Colombian Caribbean in northwestern Antioquia/Chocó; site of Spain's 1510 mainland settlements, banana enclave, Atrato River discharge, salt-wedge sedimentation, and planned deep-water port.

Gulf of Venice Drainages

Gulf of Venice Drainages (FEOW ecoregion 415): freshwater ecoregion of northern Italy's Adriatic-draining rivers, dominated by the Po basin, with glacial lakes Garda, Maggiore, Como, and Iseo and about a third endemic fish species.

Gulf Oil

Gulf Oil was an American integrated petroleum company founded in Pittsburgh in 1901 to market Spindletop crude, grown by the Mellon family and merged into Chevron in 1984.

Gulf Province

Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea: province on the northern shore of the Papuan Gulf, capital Kerema, two districts (Kerema, Kikori), 34,472 km², 203,545 people (2024 census), Purari and Kikori rivers, eravo longhouses and hevehe masks, Papua LNG.

Gulf Railway

The Gulf Railway, also called the GCC Railway (مشروع سكة حديد دول مجلس التعاون), is a planned rail network linking all six Gulf Cooperation Council states, targeted for full operation in December 2030.

Gulf Run Pipeline

The Gulf Run Pipeline is a 134-mile, 42-inch-diameter natural gas pipeline in Louisiana running from the Haynesville area to the Gulf Coast, placed in service in December 2022.

Gulf Shores, Alabama

Gulf Shores, Alabama: coastal resort city in Baldwin County on the Gulf of Mexico; population 15,014 (2020), incorporated 1958, known for white-sand beaches, Gulf State Park, and the October National Shrimp Festival.

Gulf Specimen Public Aquarium

Gulf Specimen Public Aquarium (Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory), Panacea, Florida: nonprofit founded 1963 by Jack Rudloe; live specimen supplier, touch tanks, sea turtle rehab, public aquarium since 1990.

Oct 20, 2026

Gulf St Vincent

Gulf St Vincent, South Australia's smaller gulf, an inverse estuary beside Adelaide with salinity up to 42‰, dodge tides, mangrove and seagrass habitats, prawn and snapper fisheries, and a Karenia algal bloom from March 2025.

Gulf Stream

Gulf Stream: intense warm western boundary current of the western North Atlantic, flowing from the Strait of Florida past Cape Hatteras toward Europe; average speed 6.4 km/h, first charted by Franklin in 1769–1770, a wind-driven branch of the AMOC.

Oct 22, 2026

Gulf theatre

Gulf theatre is the theatrical tradition of the Arabian Peninsula Gulf states, principally Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, Oman, and Saudi Arabia, beginning with Kuwaiti school theater in the mid-1930s.

Gulf War

The Gulf War, also known as Operation Desert Storm, was a 1990–1991 war in which a US-led coalition of about 35 nations expelled Iraq from Kuwait.

Gulf War air campaign

The Gulf War air campaign (Operation Desert Storm air offensive, 1991) was the 43-day coalition air war against Iraq, flying about 40,000 strike sorties with 8 percent guided munitions accounting for 84 percent of munitions cost.

Gulf War campaign medal awards and entitlements

The Gulf War campaign medals are national awards issued for 1990–1991 service: the US Southwest Asia Service Medal, British Gulf Medal, Canadian Gulf and Kuwait Medal, and New Zealand's General Service Medal.

Gulf War syndrome

Gulf War syndrome, now usually called Gulf War illness, is a chronic multisymptom condition affecting up to one-third of the roughly 700,000 US veterans deployed in the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War; cause and effective treatments remain undetermined.

Oct 20, 2026

Gulfiya Khanafeyeva

Gulfiya Khanafeyeva (Гульфия Ханафеева, later Agafonova), Russian hammer thrower born 1982 in Chelyabinsk; 77.26 m world record in 2006, 2006 European silver, three doping sanctions including London 2012 disqualification.

Gulfport, Mississippi

Gulfport, Mississippi: Gulfport, a Gulf Coast city and Harrison County seat founded 1898 around the Port of Gulfport (est. 1902, state-owned since 1961); population 72,926 (2020), rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina.

Gulfstream Aerospace

Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation is an American business-jet manufacturer based in Savannah, Georgia since 1967 and a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics, known for large-cabin, ultra-long-range jets like the G700 and G800.

Gulfstream G100

The Gulfstream G100, formerly the IAI Astra SPX, is a midsize business jet built by Israel Aerospace Industries, renamed by Gulfstream Aerospace in 2002 and flown by the Air National Guard as the C-38A.

Gulfstream G280

The Gulfstream G280 is a super-midsize business jet designed and sold by Gulfstream Aerospace and built by Israel Aerospace Industries in Tel Aviv, entering service in 2012.

Gulfstream G400

The Gulfstream G400 is a large-cabin, twin-engine business jet from Gulfstream Aerospace, announced in 2021 with a 4,200 nm range, first flown in August 2024.

Gulfstream G550

The Gulfstream G550, a development of the Gulfstream V also serving as the military C-37B, is an ultra-long-range business jet built from 2003 to 2021, with about 600 delivered.

Gulfstream G650/G700/G800

The Gulfstream G650/G700/G800, also known as the Gulfstream GVI, are ultra-long-range, large-cabin business jets built by Gulfstream Aerospace in Savannah, Georgia, a General Dynamics subsidiary.

Gulfstream III

The Gulfstream III is a twin-engine business jet built by Gulfstream Aerospace in Savannah, Georgia, from 1979 to 1987, the first business jet with standard winglets and the basis for the military C-20.

Gulfstream IV

The Gulfstream IV (model G-IV) is a large-cabin, twin-engine business jet built in Savannah, Georgia, as a development of the Gulfstream III; certified in 1987, over 870 GIV, GIV-SP, and G450 aircraft were built.

Gulfstream Natural Gas System

The Gulfstream Natural Gas System is a 745-mile interstate natural gas pipeline from the Mississippi and Alabama Gulf Coast across the Gulf of Mexico to Florida, in service since 2002.

Gulfstream V

The Gulfstream V is an ultra-long-range business jet by Gulfstream Aerospace that first flew in 1995 and was also flown by the US Air Force as the C-37A.

Gulgong

Gulgong, NSW: historic gold rush town in the Central Tablelands, 20 km north of Mudgee. Known as the Ten Dollar Town, childhood home of Henry Lawson, with 130 National Trust buildings and the 1871 Prince of Wales Opera House.