The UK's largest warship marks a new phase in our naval history, the Queen has said, as the vessel was officially named in her honour at a ceremony at Fife's Rosyth Dockyard. A bottle of whisky was smashed on the hull of the 65,000-tonne HMS Queen Elizabeth - the first of two new Royal Navy aircraft carriers being built.
The Saint Lawrence River (French: Fleuve Saint-Laurent; Tuscarora: KahnawÃ¡Ê¼kye; Mohawk: Kaniatarowanenneh, meaning big waterway) is a large river in the middle latitudes of North America. The Saint Lawrence River flows in a roughly north-easterly direction, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean and forming the primary drainage outflow of the Great Lakes Basin. It traverses the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario, and is part of the international boundary between Ontario, Canada, and the U.S. state of New York.
The Gulf Stream Currentâthe main conveyor of heat from south to north in the Atlanticâswirls surface waters in this infrared image from the Suomi NPP satellite on April 16, 2013, centered around 180 miles due east of Atlantic City, NJ.t moves north along the coast of Florida and then turns eastward off of North Carolina, flowing northeast across the Atlantic. Off the Atlantic seaboard of the United States, the Gulf Stream flows at a rate nearly 300 times faster than the typical flow of the Amazon River.