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
MS Queen Elizabeth the first time in Lisbon, Portugal, in preparation for "Queen Mary 2"s 10th birthday. All three on departure sailed in a one-line formation to Southampton. 9 May 2014: Both "Queen Elizabeth" and "Queen Victoria" led in single file, "Queen Mary 2" up the Southampton channel, with both ships docking in a bow to bow formation performing a birthday salute to "Queen Mary 2". Later on, all three Cunarders gather for a fireworks display in which "Queen Mary 2" led both the Queen Elizabeth and Queen Victoria back down the channel. 25 May 2015: The three 'Queens' at Liverpool celebrating 175