Queen Elizabeth Islands the four ice caps that the federal government's NRCan's Climate Change Geoscience Program Earth Sciences Sector (ESS), monitors onsite in the Canadian High Arctic, three are in the Queen Elizabeth Islands: Devon, Meighen and Melville. In a memo to Earth Sciences Sector (ESS) in Canada's High Arctic indicates that shrinking of ice caps started in the late 1980s, and has accelerated rapidly since 2005," says an October 2013 memo to NRCan's deputy minister, who reports to federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver. The increased melt rate was confirmed by University of California, Irvine in 2017. Computer analysis of a glacier
HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08) HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08) HMS "Queen Elizabeth" is the lead ship of the of aircraft carriers, the largest warships ever built for the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom and capable of carrying up to 60 aircraft. She is named in honour of the first , a renowned World War I era super-dreadnought, which in turn was named after Queen Elizabeth I. The new "Queen Elizabeth" will carry her namesake's honours, as well as her Tudor rose-adorned crest and motto. The ship began sea trials in June 2017, and was commissioned on 7 December 2017. Her first Commanding Officer was