Queen Elizabeth Islands on the east, Parry Channel on the south and the Arctic Ocean to the north and west. Most are uninhabited although the Natural Resources Canada's Climate Change Geoscience Program Earth Sciences Sector (ESS), has monitors on the islands. In 1969 Panarctic Oils, now part of Suncor began operating exploration oil wells in the Sverdrup and Franklinian basins and planned on establishing its resource base in the Queen Elizabeth Islands. It ceased production in the 1970s. At the 2013 GeoConvention the Arctic Islands region were called Canada's perpetual "last petroleum exploration frontier". Hogg and Enachescu argued that the development and implementation
Queen Elizabeth 2 ship with the words "I name this ship "Queen Elizabeth the Second"," the normal short form of address of the monarch, Elizabeth II herself. The following day, the "New York Times" and "British Times" printed the name as "Queen Elizabeth II", the short form of written style of the monarch. However, when the liner left the shipyard in 1968 she bore the name "Queen Elizabeth 2" on her bow, and has continued to do so ever since. In an authorised history of "Queen Elizabeth 2" published in 1969, various explanations of events occur. These state that, as at the launch