Queen Elizabeth Islands inventory of Axel Heiberg Island was undertaken in the 1960s. Later inventories of the World Glacier Monitoring Service under the direction of Fritz Müller, who worked on glacier inventories internationally, included the Axel Heiberg Island glacier. Queen Elizabeth Islands The Queen Elizabeth Islands (; formerly Parry Islands or Parry Archipelago) are the northernmost cluster of islands in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, split between Nunavut and Northwest Territories in Northern Canada. The Queen Elizabeth Islands contain approximately 14% of the global glacier and ice cap area. (excluding the inland and shelf ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica). The islands, together in
RMS Queen Elizabeth After 1942, the two "Queen"s were relocated to the North Atlantic for the transportation of American troops to Europe. "Queen Elizabeth" and "Queen Mary" were both used as troop transports during the war. Their high speeds allowed them to outrun hazards, principally German U-boats, usually allowing them to travel outside a convoy. During her war service as a troopship "Queen Elizabeth" carried more than 750,000 troops, and she also sailed some . Following the end of the Second World War, "Queen Elizabeth" was refitted and furnished as an ocean liner while her running mate "Queen Mary" remained in her wartime