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.
Great Lakes watershed is nearly three times the size of the actual lakes, encompassing more than 767,000. square miles (GLIN, 2009). The St. Lawrence River flows 530 miles from Lake Ontario to the Gulf of St. Lawrence âwith a fall of 245 feetâ (USACE, 2007). According to the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers (USACE) âthe International Section of the river extends for a distance of 115 miles from Lake Ontario to St. Regis, New.